[Reader-list] Geelani announced one Article of the Constitutionof Free Kashmir - its "Liquor Policy"

[TaraPrakash]

The point probably the mailer was making and you are missing is that the 
assumption is that SASG's "free" Kashmir will be primarily an Islamic state 
that will allow some unislamic things to happen. This is the same vision of 
Hindu Rashtra that Advani was selling to Indians when BJP was being seen as 
taking power away in India.

That you don't necessarily agree with SASG makes no freaking sense to me 
especially when you have unequivocally blatantly unskeptically defended and 
justified SASG on this forum. By becoming a SASG stooge you have joined the 
ranks of RSS. By putting SASG and MK Gandhi in the same sentence you killed 
the embodiment of nonviolence once more, and joined RSS ranks in more than 
one way.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shuddhabrata Sengupta" <shuddha at sarai.net>
To: "cashmeeri" <cashmeeri at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Geelani announced one Article of the 
Constitutionof Free Kashmir - its "Liquor Policy"


>
>
> Well, on these grounds, Syed Ali Shah Geelani is more moderate than 
> Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who advocated total prohibition,  (regardless 
> of whether one was or was not a believer in any religion)  and was even 
> against the drinking of tea. Does that mean that we  think that his vision 
> of 'Ram Rajya'  would be identical to what  Aalok Aima considers to be an 
> Islamic state?
>
> Incidentally, the state of Gujarat, has consistently imposed total 
> prohibition in deference to M.K. Gandhi's ideas on prohibition for as 
> long as it has existed as a state of the Indian Union. So, as per Mr. 
> Aima's suggestion, would we now be prepared to admit that Mr. Modi's 
> Gujarat (and the Gujarat of all his predecessors) is the closest we  have 
> come to having an 'islamic State' in India. Oh no, the closest  we 
> actually came to being an Islamic state in India was actually  during 
> Morarji Desai;s prime ministership, when some of the current  champions of 
> Hindutva were in power, when total prohibition was  imposed on all of 
> India. In fact we came even closer than the vision  of SAS Geelani, which 
> at least allows the 'non-believer' his or her  daily tipple? Incidentally, 
> Mr. Geelani went on to suggest that if a  bottle of alchohl belongiing to 
> a non believer was willingly or  unwillingly damaged by a Muslim, then the 
> state would have to  compensate the non-believer for that damage. I 
> haven;t quite heard of  an Islamic state willing to pay people to drink 
> alchohl (if their  bottle has been damaged). He went on to quote an 
> 'aayat' that said -  "Muslims, do not insult even the idols (but) of the 
> idol worshippers,  for they will insult your God in return" and that the 
> obligations of  humanity are binding in our relations even with those we 
> consider to  be our enemies.  Interesting stuff, coming as it does from 
> the man  who is so offen held up as a figure of inflexible bigotry.
>
> By the way, none of this means that I agree with Mr. SAS Geelani;s  vision 
> of the future. I am merely stating the facts that I  know and  witnessed.
>
> best
>
> Shuddha
>
>
> On 22-Oct-10, at 2:38 PM, cashmeeri wrote:
>
>>
>> Geelani announced one Article of the Constitution of Free Kashmir -  its 
>> "Liquor Policy":
>>
>> http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a176267.html
>>
>> "The system of justice in an independent Jammu and Kashmir would be  such 
>> that even liquor would not be banned for non-Muslims. It would  be 
>> prohibited fo......r the Muslim majority but if minorities feel  they 
>> want to have liquor they would be allowed to consume as their  right,"
>>
>> Hello!!!! Hello!!!!
>> I thought it was going to be a Secular Free Kashmir. This sounds 
>> suspiciously like an Islamic Free Kashmir.
>>
>> Interesting prospect : Free Kashmir ..... no Non-Muslims ..... no  Liquor
>>
>> Maybe it is the "Tourism Policy"
>>
>> ............. aalok aima
>>
>>
>>
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