ISIS on rampage - How tolerant can we be?

While ISIS is at killing the ‘others’ Game theory says…

I have often thought of muting my own thoughts, as written here, along the lines of this piece but the restraint just  breached with the limitless terror ISIS unleashes with impunity.

ISIS is pure breed, pedigree Islamists and their call appears to be based on Islam. I have not heard any religious heads find flaw with their call to establish the ‘Caliphate’. I have seen Indian Journalists from Liberal camp, or Islamic journalists who have camped there till their Sharia arrives, in fact wishing ISIS would go and help Hamas. There is no shred of morals, even for showing.

ISIS kills people, puts up severed heads on stakes to terrorize the living into submission, converts the rest and hunts down the residual. This is the second time a Genocide has been carried out successfully, under the watchful eyes of UN, the first being Darfur. Ooops, third, almost forgot Rwanda.  Both times the culprits come from same stock  The victims, all of them have only one thing in common. They are not Muslims or the kind of Muslims that ISIS Islamists approves of.  Need to remember the newpaper and media reports that say that ISIS Islamists have robust support in many countries amongst the Muslim population. ISIS flags have appeared in Tamil Nadu and Kashmir in India and all over Europe and in other parts of the world.

 

While the killing goes on, there is hardly anyone in a hurry to stop them. In the case of non-Muslims, it is overwhelmingly the sensibilities ingrained in our society, filtered by politically correct expression actually drive us to bury our head in the sand while the crime goes on. In the case of Muslims, one is not sure as there is no protest except from a small sane minority who have overcome the effect of the teachings of religion.

Let us look at it from a Game theory perspective

Options are:

1.       That is, if Islamists kill and non-Islamists do not kill, non-Islamists get eliminated.

2.       If Islamists kill and non-Islamists also kill in return, both may have some survivors left

3.       If Islamists do not kill and non-Islamists kill Islamists will get eliminated

4.       If Islamists do not kill and non-Islamists also do not, both thrive

The best option is, option for civil and democratic society is 4. But since Islamists are not willing to follow the strategy of not-killing the others, compelled by their belief system that imposes a duty on them to kill or convert the other, as claimed by ISIS, the only option left to non-Islamists is to destroy ISIS  as short term objective.
As a long term objective, the non-Islamists also should impose sufficient restrictions on Islamists so as to prevent the repeat of this mad violence ever again. Mostly in the countries where democracy is in force.

If ISIS is allowed to kill non-Islamists, it is a no brainer, the number of ISIS kind of people, Islamists, will increase and non-Islamists will decrease. With less men amongst non-Islamists and their women /womb being converted to make more Islamists, the strength of ISIS will only grow. The strategy of showing the other cheek does not work in 21^st century.

The pure Islamists also do not shy away from stating that ‘secularism’ is not acceptable. For them it is “Islam or bust’ which, if achieved, means we, the rest are all bust. The real fight is between Islam pedigree and democracy. The moderate Muslims are most likely to line up behind the Jihadist as the threat of ‘Apostasy’ is pregnant with dire consequence, including ending up as a human ornament on stakes.

(Secularism is religion of Kafirs- Board in Pakistan, #ISIS not yet there )

There is one thing that Game Theory says that is logical. When adversary attacks, you too respond with attack and when the adversary ceases to attack (having learned the lesson that it is the act of attacking that begot attack from the other side) cease to, to bring and enforce the most favorable behavior in the adversary.

Without getting emotional, I see only there are only two options left to those following democracy.

1.       Attack anyone who resorts to killing without any feeling of remorse, the terror Islamists variety. This is like doing a surgery. Removal of cancerous growth is to be approached as a rational act and not an emotional one.

2.       Deny benefits of democracy to any country that follows Islamic law , including education, citizenship and domicile benefits.Consider repatriation also. 
           Make it clear that it is an ‘either’ or ‘or’ option. Either one is a follower of Islam that demands Sharia codes to be the ‘governing  jurisprudence’ or a believer in democratic values. Believer in both is from ‘Taqqia’ constituency. Renunciation of select parts of Islamic teachings is prerequisite to gain entry into 'democratic' world. It is akin to banning Nazism.

The dead have rights too and we cannot afford to bury those rights without being reminded of our collective guilt. If someone has taken away their right to live, with force, consequently, such criminals also lose their right to live. No mercy with them who carry out murders to achieve a political goal that will make me, you and all others who are not pedigree Islamists, a slave in their scheme of things. If you do not stand up to challenge, we all are kicking the can down the road.

Time to stand up and eliminate the political Ebola altogether! There is no time of niceties. Those who wish and implement death to men, women and children as means to establish their version of politics are evil incarnate. Any mercy shown to them is spitting on the graves of those innocent human beings, killed in the last 1300 years, who unwittingly paid the price for some supremacist's blood-thirsty evil ambition to impose a demonic will. And on those being killed in Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria daily.

India's vote against Israel in UN - Another look

When ‘Best’ is the enemy of ‘Good’, the Bad wins

From yesterday I have been fighting BJP supporters who have been vocal in protesting against India’s vote against Israel.

UN voting

Some of the contents were strong indeed.

Some made comparison with UPA

Some went even further

In two months,  the marriage appeared to be in tatters, with no trace having had a honey moon together. The tone was not of disagreement but of betrayal and cheating. In good measure this was also there on twitter.

And this

Somehow most people get hurt by actions and inactions of our political leaders and are willing to launch into destructive mode without a second thought.

Blast from the past

On May 16th 2014, the results of the new election were announced and we are into the third month since BJP assumed power. It does not mean that BJP has started a new era totally divested of the consequences of actions of the past government. It is a continuation.

Let us look at what BJP inherited from  Congress.

1.       Economy in shambles

2.       Media manned by Congress sympathizers (including film Industry)

3.       Oligapoly in the name of coterie

4.       Democratic institutions eroded by parallel rule of NAC

5.       A PM who stood and watched for two decades

6.       Corrupted idea of secularism, appeasement in exchange for votes policy

7.       Divisive and internicine caste politics

8.       Communal elements who hold sway within India with trans-border loyalty

9.       Politicized administrative machinery

10.   Judiciary which seems to have been influenced by Executive

11.   Politicized Defence forces

12.   Looted public assets

13.   Artificially inflated $ rate, suspected to fund election

14.   Anti-Majoritism

15.   Revengeful tax policies

16.   Failing infrastructure

17.   Demoralized manufacturing sector

18.   ……

19.   ……

The net of it is, India was slowly wasting away its economic power due to inaction, looting and policy coma. There was a group of people with no direct mandate from people, yet acting as one with powers that even exceeded the Cabinet. Media spoke and wrote what the Congress government wanted and wrapped news that were not palatable to the establishment. Malicious and anti-democratic camapigns were carried out against elected state Governments, reducing the federal structure to a farce. Free speech was under pressure with draconian laws. CBI was not ashamed of carrying a moniker “Congress Bureau of Investigation”. Cases against political leaders were dropped which was miraculously and without fail followed by its support to Congress .

Those who are crying like children denied of a toffee should remember what it was two months ago. This change was not achieved with ease. Modiji had to fight all of them without compromising what he stood for, the politics, the power, media, NGOs, false cases, Collectors and Election commissoners.

Few chapters can be filled to remind us of the ditch we were in during Congress time.

Promise of Future

There is a clear larger objective BJP keeps repeating, that is,  Congress Mukht Bharat. This is an idea to which many like me have voted as the idea of Congress has become so corrupt that there is no chance that it will turn around to make contribution to our nation.  Mother and Son are unabashedly strutting around as divine rulers of India while the slaves are ready to accept their fuedal lords without questioning, unbecoming of members of democracy.

With the election of BJP, India cannot start doing what is right immediately. It is a strategic move that should take into consideration our economic and social plights.

The only way the dreams inspired by BJP, for which people have voted, becomes a chance of becoming reality is by India becoming economically strong.

You need more money to build a world class defence. Wars are not fought with Guns and Ships. It is fought with money.

You need more money to invest in infrastructure that will go in reducing our oil dependency. Irony is, if the economy spurs, so spurs demand for oil and consequenty the price. It would seem we Indians work harder to pay more to our oil suppliers. To move the energy dependency partially to local sources is not something one can do in a day or a month or year. And till it is done, it is foolish to pick a fracas with our energy suppliers for any such incident only will increase our oil bill. Lower our saving. The largest objective is to avoid that, even if it means voting against Israel as a short term measure.

You need more money to lay dedicated, high speed railway tracks which will reduce our oil consumption, moving the freight traffic from road to rail.

We need more money to build capacity in Passenger rail to move more passengers from road to rail.

We need more money to supply power to produce Steel and Cement to build that rail line

We need more money to provide energy to those Steel and Cement plants to produce more Steel and Cement

And to achieve all these, we need patience.

 If we vote with Israel, those who oppose us should know that we cannot be pushed because we are strong. Bravado is not the answer. It works only in Amitabh and Dharam movies and not in real life.

So the fight is long and demanding. The fruits may not be available to some of us in our lifetime. It may elude most of us for years. But I thought the idea of electing BJP to power emnated from Nationalists who are ready for a sacrifice and a long fight to make our nation stronger. To see people who lose heart in two months is disappointing.

The emotionally challenged BJP fans are asking for the best and now. There is a message for them. When you demand the best, you are killing the good. And when you kill the good, only the bad will remain on the field, with Best unachieved, good dead and only bad surviving.

All this bickering for ideal state will weaken a realistic chance we have to build a great nation in thenext 10 years. While we build we will do things we will cherish and also things that we know we wish we do not have to. We will do things we will regret. But as long as the actions are not meant to defeat the objective with which we started, remember, short term sacrifices are only short term.

Dear BJP voters, kindly think about it. Change will take time. To take a weak country to a position of strength will take time. First we have to stand strong as an economic power before we flaunt our political muscles.

Jai Hindi

dwimidha@gmail.com 

World Vision is not India's vision

Cultural Threats of NGOs

“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.” -― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The most seductive part of popular knowledge gathering is, the ease with which it is harvested, notwithstanding a possibility that it could possibly be misleading; in most cases it is, unless it is right by accident and not design. In this fast paced world, where the literates outnumber the educated, possibly by few thousands to one, ideas however shallow, deceptive or insidious are propagated at tremendous velocity. Before an idea is even given perfunctory look-over, it is part of accepted popular culture, folklore and commoditized that one is compelled to accept it in his/her life. The same method is employed by organizations with nefarious intent to propagate ideas to erode the culture of indigenous people who fall for the immediacy of the appeal.  This is about it.

With the advent of printed book, one could reasonably say the ‘information age’ began. Prior to advent of the printing machine, the books were painfully and individually scribed, along with the errors that were in original in addition to those introduced by the scribe. From there to the current era, when errors are intentionally introduced to induce desired response from the recipient of the audience, the science of information has progressed much or degenerated, depending upon how you see it.

With the advantage of mass produced information, the western world could control of the ‘knowledge Industry’ with ease. As much as science and technology used it to its vantage, other institutions like the ‘proselytizing industry’ also gained a lot by skillfully managing information. In that process, it also decimated the indigenous knowledge, to put competition away, not by fair means but by domination, threat and any available means.

Times have changed. The invaders this time do not come with the swords and guns to rule India. Nor do they keep the intent easily visible to the literate lot, for whom, the bold letters on the wrapper matter more than what is being shipped. They still do everything they did earlier, but in a politically correct way.

The organization ‘World vision’ is very active in India in running units that ‘Focus on Children’ in about 174 districts as the count stands today. It also declares itself as a ‘Christian Humanitarian Organization working to create lasting change in the lives of Children…”

There are many people in India who contribute substantially to ‘World Vision (WV)’ without questioning the intent of the organization because the package has nice, politically correct brand name ‘World Vision’ and it apparently takes care of Children’s welfare. There is an implicit trust in the noble cause ‘World Vision’ seems to have taken up; to change the world for the better. Whose vision does WV share as ‘World Vision’ seems ?

 WV International has a certain level of control over WV India, a point that is at best glossed out in the ‘About Us’ page of WV India. At the outset, there is no dispute that WV India is being controlled by WV International and hence it follows that the policies of WV India is directed and dictated by WV International.

In WV International’s page, the first of its commitments is “the organisation’s Christian Commitments” and not its commitment to serving children, which is the second in order. It is not clear if WV International pursues ‘Serving children’ to fulfil its ‘Christian commitment’ or the other way around. Having stated the first of the commitment to ‘the organization’s Christian Commitment’ one would be inclined to delve deeper into this matter.

The WVs “subscribes to the Core Values, the Mission Statement, and the Statement of Faith of World Vision. The Statement of Faith corresponds to the Statement of Faith put forward by the National Association of Evangelicals”.

That is WV India is controlled by WV International which is guided by the ‘Statement of Faith” by National Association of Evangelicas.

That mission is "to honor God by connecting and representing evangelical Christians.”

The WV India has an appearance of a selfless organization in the area of taking care of orphaned and economically challenged children.

You peak that and you find WV International, which has ‘Christian commitment’ as its objective.

You peal that and you find ‘Statement of faith’ of the National Association of Evangelicals.

It would seem reasonable that operations of WV are vehicles to achieve the mission of evangelical Christians.

“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.” -― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

With about USD 3 Billion revenue for the year 2011, WV’s money talks and when it talks people listen. It is very interesting to note that the founder of WV made movies not too charitable to Hinduism or any non-Christian religion, going as far as stating that only Christianity can stand against Communism, hence conversion of Hindus and people of ‘false religion’ is a protection against Communism.  WV’s intent is clear and it is incumbent on every true Christian to bring the ‘other’ to His path. There is no ambiguity that committed Christians have to engage in proselytization as a matter of duty. (We will come to Islam in some other time, not here)

In other words, WV was in search of its pursuit of its objective of proselytization using anti-communism sentiments. Post-cold war politics makes the fear of communists less threatening and hence less appealing. In the liberal ideological blithe, where those who are economically well-off can wash away their guilt of not contributing to social causes are in great numbers, these organization harvest the guilt to continue what anti-communism sentiments have ceased to propel. Proselytization is still the goal and the fuel has gone eco-friendly and approved by liberal ideology.

 When Indians contribute money to WV, they are contributing to building a Christian mission. But they do not know that because the façade is ‘welfare of children' which the contributors find so difficult to decline to help; which hides the true core values for which WV stands. While WV talks to the contributors about feeding a child, internally, it has taken an oath to of ‘Statement of Faith’ and is still a religious organization which is committed to proselytization. Christian organizations such as World Vision have not conceded the corrosive nature of its proselytization on indigenous culture and have not agreed to cease conversion activities. It still is the stated goal. That is the goal that collects money to ‘catch ‘em young’ and make Christians of children from economically backward section. There is no commitment that there will be no ‘religious activities’ within the orphanage. In fact that is guaranteed by our constitution and cannot be challenged.

While people in India are rightly talking about the roles of NGOs in India posing a heinous threat to national economic threat, I believe, in the coming years, Indian politics will be determined by the demographic composition.

It is not only the visible part of the iceberg like ‘Greenpeace’ that is a threat but the invisible and humongous ones which will turn the indigenous cultural compositions on its head that also need to be addressed. Countries in East Asia are already destroyed by the intrusive Christian evangelism and the people of many such countries do know nothing of their history.

Do we want India to become another Philippines? South Korea? With all connections to our glorious past cut off? I do not claim to have an answer but at least want to raise a question that I trust will echo in many.