Showing posts with label Muslim world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslim world. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The State And Its Several Forms

English: The Ethnic composition of Muslims in ...
English: The Ethnic composition of Muslims in the United States, according to the United States Department of State based on the publication of Being Muslim in America as of March 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In China, the communist party stands above everything, above the courts, the government, everything. Islamists want states where the religious authority and organization supersedes everything. Both are worldviews seeking recognition.

The American/Western/Indian model of democracy is suspicious of those arrangements. But then the Chinese and Muslims have not ascended to the highest levels in America, Europe and India.

Even if eventually everyone ends up in countries that look politically like America, Britain and India today, some of these fermentations might be societies on the move. These might be phases as they get their footing. A rich China is going to be less intolerant of dissent. One hopes.

Islam wants to be treated on par with Christianity. Not getting that, it internalizes itself, and goes inward. Would you say?

Sunday, May 24, 2015

ये राजा सिंह कौन?

इसका मैंने पहले कभी न नाम सुना न ही भविष्य में इसका मैं नाम सुनना चाहता हुँ। चेहरा मोहरा से ये राजा तो लगता नहीं। और न इसके शर पे कोई सिंग है। तो फिर ये राजा सिंह क्यों कहता है अपने आपको? ये राजा सिंह कौन? ये कहता है अकबर ओऐसी के दादा हिन्दु थे। अरे राजा सिंह, सोंचो, अकबर ओऐसी के दादा अगर हिन्दु थे और वो मुसलमान बन गए तो सोंचो, उसके दादा को अकल आ गयी, तेरे दादा को अकल क्यों नहीं आयी?

ये राजा सिंह जैसे लोगों को बीजेपी sideline नहीं करती तो भारत विश्व शक्ति नहीं बन सकता। भारत में मुसलमानों को बराबरी देनी होगी। तब ही भारत विश्व शक्ति बन सकता है। किसी मुसलमान को उप प्रधान मंत्री बनाओ, किसीको गृह मंत्री बनाओ।

मैं तो चाहुँगा १५ साल में केंद्र में बीजेपी और मजलिस का कोएलिशन गवर्नमेंट बने। Majlis is best positioned for the idea that democracy is the best form of government, and democracy needs to spread into every Muslim country on earth. जो काम अमरिका नहीं कर सका वो काम भारत करे। Make democracy an export item.

मजलिस का मेसेज सिंपल है ---- (१) अपने मुसलमान होने का गर्व करो (२) संगठित हो जाओ (३) वोट दो। लेकिन सिर्फ opposition mindset से काम नहीं चलना है। राज कर के दिखाओ। २-४ बड़े शहरों से शुरू करो। बाद में कहीं state government बनाओ

हिन्दुवों को कहुँगा, हिन्दु होने का गर्व करो, मगर दंगा फसाद मत करो। Live and let live. Enjoy your religion, but also your citizenship. Your citizenship requires that you treat Muslims right.


Monday, October 06, 2014

War On Terrorism And Drones And Android Phones And India

Description: A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Gainesv...
Description: A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Gainesville, Florida, Dec. 31, 1922. Source: http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html. Portion: Reduced from original size so it is no longer suitable for reproduction. Purpose: To illustrate the article Ku Klux Klan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In geometry you define a point, you define a line as the shortest distance between two points, and so on to complex theorems. I take a similar approach to the War On Terrorism. As soon as 9/11 happened I equated it to Pearl Harbor. The Cold War ended, and this was a beginning to something new of the same magnitude.

Some of the postulates.
  • 9/11 was Pearl Harbor to a new Cold War like era. It was the beginning of a new Front. 
  • Freedom rings in every human heart. Democracy is thus not an American export. But the external conditions in any given country can be hostile to democracy, to freedom. America being the oldest democracy carries the historic weight on its shoulders. America has no bigger goal in the world than a total spread of democracy. That is why it was born. That is also in the best interests of the country. 
  • India being the world's largest democracy and by now the third largest economy after China and America is America's natural ally. India is the new Britain. There are almost as many Muslims in India as in Pakistan. Only Indonesia has more Muslims. The Muslims in India have lived under a democratic republic for close to 70 years now. That is a long, ongoing experiment. But it is also a criticism of democracy that Muslims in India, like African Americans in America lag behind in every socio-economic indicator. 
  • The War On Terrorism concludes when all Muslim countries have become full fledged, functioning democracies with regular free and fair elections, multiple political parties, minority rights, individual rights, and the major institutions of democracy. 
  • In some countries democracy will arrive by conquest. That is almost always a bad idea. 
  • In most countries democracy will arrive because people rose up and came out into the streets. 
  • Can all this happen on its own? Or does America have a role? America has a huge role. America can be that catalyst that makes it happen much faster than it otherwise will. 
  • Iraq was not a functioning democracy when the ISIS rose up. It has become an electoral Shiacracy in the aftermath of Saddam, which was a Sunni dominated dictatorship. 
  • America toppled Saddam fast. But it did a poor job of nurturing democracy in the country. America did not get the bang for the buck, after over a trillion dollars spent, over 100,000 Iraqi lives lost, over 5,000 American lives lost. 
  • Special forces are better than traditional combat forces, because they employ similar tactics to the terrorists. But special forces can not be the primary weapon. 
  • The primary weapon in this war is the cheap Android phone that gets internet access beamed from the sky. 
  • Google and Facebook both have working prototypes on which they plan on spending a billion dollars each. They are going to get a ton of drones up in the sky, above airplanes but below satellites. 
  • The most important thing the American government can do is spend more than 100 billion dollars to rapidly scale out this Google/Facebook effort to blanket the entire planet with internet access from the sky. And flood the target countries with cheap Android phones, and cheap solar battery chargers. Dictator after dictator will topple. Terrorist groups that number in the thousands will look like insignificant minorities like the Michigan militia or the Ku Klux Klan in the Pacific Ocean of two billion Muslims. 
  • But right now the US government is putting zero effort into this. Why? Because the military-industrial complex has a grip on the US government, directly as well as through the command they exert over public opinion. If the War On Terrorism only has military solutions, then that industry keeps making its hundreds of billions. And off we go. 
  • The current debate on net neutrality in DC should tell you how naive and hopeless the tech industry is in DC. This net neutrality debate should not even be happening. But is happening. The tech industry should admit to its utter failure in DC. They need to go head on and compete with the military-industrial complex in DC. Because there is a War On Terrorism that needs to be taken to its logical conclusion. The fewer lives that are lost in the process, better it will be. Muslim lives are as valuable as Christian lives, believe it or not. 
  • Drones from the sky, Android phones on the ground. That is one. The biggest political move Washington could make is to turn India into the new Britain. Muslims in India are best positioned to act as ambassadors of democracy across the Islamic world. On this India count as well America has so far failed. 
  • This drone thing, this India thing. These would be proactive. But reacting to the ISIS is reactive. That is more expensive, and less effective. Much more expensive, and much less effective. You can cut down the ISIS in size in a very expensive way, and still not have managed to spread democracy anywhere.