This guy is great supporter of moslem wrong doings. I am sure, people should not take him seriously. What about the non-moslems in Pakistan, Afganisthan and Bangladesh driven away and taken shelter in India from the islamists. What about Kashmiri pundits?

This guy is great supporter of moslem wrong doings. I am sure, people should not take him seriously. What about the non-moslems in Pakistan, Afganisthan and Bangladesh driven away and taken shelter in India from the islamists. What about Kashmiri pundits?

ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FACTS
1. ISRAEL BECAME A STATE IN 1312 B.C., TWO MILLENNIA BEFORE ISLAM;

2. ARAB REFUGEES FROM ISRAEL BEGAN CALLING THEMSELVES "PALESTINIANS"
IN 1967, TWO DECADES AFTER (MODERN) ISRAELI STATEHOOD;

3. AFTER CONQUERING THE LAND IN 1272 B.C., JEWS RULED IT FOR A
THOUSAND YEARS AND MAINTAINED A CONTINUOUS PRESENCE THERE FOR 3,300
YEARS;

4. THE ONLY ARAB RULE FOLLOWING CONQUEST IN 633 B.C. LASTED JUST 22
YEARS;

5. FOR OVER 3,300 YEARS, JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH CAPITAL. IT WAS
NEVER THE CAPITAL OF ANY ARAB OR MUSLIM ENTITY. EVEN UNDER JORDANIAN
RULE, (EAST) JERUSALEM WAS NOT MADE THE CAPITAL, AND NO ARAB LEADER
CAME TO VISIT IT;

6. JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED OVER 700 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, BUT NOT ONCE IS
IT MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN;

7. KING DAVID FOUNDED JERUSALEM; MOHAMMED NEVER SET FOOT IN IT;

8. JEWS PRAY FACING JERUSALEM; MUSLIMS FACE MECCA. IF THEY ARE BETWEEN
THE TWO CITIES, MUSLIMS PRAY FACING MECCA, WITH THEIR BACKS TO
JERUSALEM;

9. IN 1948, ARAB LEADERS URGED THEIR PEOPLE TO LEAVE, PROMISING TO
CLEANSE THE LAND OF JEWISH PRESENCE. 68% OF THEM FLED WITHOUT EVER
SETTING EYES ON AN ISRAELI SOLDIER;

10. VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE JEWISH POPULATION OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES HAD TO
FLEE AS THE RESULT OF VIOLENCE AND POGROMS;

11. SOME 630,000 ARABS LEFT ISRAEL IN 1948, WHILE CLOSE TO A MILLION
JEWS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES;

12. IN SPITE OF THE VAST TERRITORIES AT THEIR DISPOSAL, ARAB REFUGESS
WERE DELIBERATELY PREVENTED FROM ASSIMILATING INTO THEIR HOST
COUNTRIES. OF 100 MILLION REFUGEES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR 2, THEY ARE THE
ONLY GROUP TO HAVE NEVER INTEGRATED WITH THEIR CORELIGIONISTS. MOST OF
THE JEWISH REFUGEES FROM EUROPE AND ARAB LANDS WERE SETTL ED IN ISRAEL,
A COUNTRY NO LARGER THAN NEW JERSEY;

13. THERE ARE 22 MUSLIM COUNTRIES, NOT COUNTING PALESTINE. THERE IS
ONLY ONE JEWISH STATE. ARABS STARTED ALL FIVE WARS AGAINST ISRAEL, AND
LOST EVERY ONE OF THEM;

14. FATAH AND HAMAS CONSTITUTIONS STILL CALL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF
ISRAEL. ISRAEL CEDED MOST OF THE WEST BANK AND ALL OF GAZA TO THE
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, AND EVEN PROVIDED IT WITH ARMS;

15. DURING THE JORDANIAN OCCUPATION, JEWISH HOLY SITES WERE VANDALIZED
AND WERE OFF LIMITS TO JEWS. UNDER ISRAELI RULE, ALL MUSLIM AND
CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES ARE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL FAITHS;

16. OUT OF 175 UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS UP TO 1990,
97 WERE AGAINST ISRAEL; OUT OF 690 GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS, 429
WERE AGAINST ISRAEL;

18. THE U.N. WAS SILENT WHEN THE JORDANIANS DESTROYED 58 SYNAGOGUES IN
THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM. IT REMAINED SILENT WHILE JORDAN
SYSTEMATICALLY DESECRATED THE ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY ON THE MOUNT OF
OLIVES, AN D IT REMAINED SILENT WHEN JORDAN ENFORCED APARTHEID LAWS
PREVENTING JEWS FROM ACCESSING THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND WESTERN WALL.

THESE ARE TRYING TIMES. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING,
AND WHAT WE WILL TELL OUR GRANDCHILDREN ABOUT OUR ACTIONS DURING THIS
CRISIS, WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

TRUTH AND PEACE ARE VALUES COMMON TO ALL OF US. EVERYONE MUST KNOW!

Sajid;

Mohammed may have had great compassion when he was under threat in Mecca. He had not many followers then. Meccans were angry and thretened him. He was a trouble maker for Meccans. He had to be good and he was acting like a good man.

He escaped to Madina and became powerful, he was not what he was in Mecca. There were three Jewish tribes in Madina who were living with other Arabs when he arrived. He expelled two tribes, killed all men, even though they pleaded for mercy and wanted to leave their proprties to Mohammed and settle some where else, of the thrid tribe, sold their women and children as slaves. He established a rule to kill any one who renounces Islam. He did many other horrible things, no civilzed amn or woman will do today. That is why in Afganisthan one of the Afgans converted to christianity, the whole community of Muslims unanmously wanted to execute him. His life was saved and he had to leave Afganistan to save his life. Real character of a person is known when he is free from fear of retribution. Mohammed showed he was a cruel tyrant. Today you Muslims are not free. You can't leave your religion. You under the gun. How can a country can be secular when Mulims are free to leave their faith?

Jews were every where in the middle East from the beginning. Middle East belongs as much to Jews as to Arabs. Today Isreal occupies a small place in the middle east. In fact they deserve more land. Mosque on the Temple mount was built by Muslims. Their was Temple there before. Where ever Muslims went they destroyed temples, chuches and other places of worship and built mosques on the same sites. Most of your ancesters became Muslims during invasions were Hindus, Buddhists in the Indian subcontinent and Afganithan. Your ancesters were murdered and others were converted by force. You are following the religion of your oppressors. You don't remember your roots. May be you should start to find out your real history.

Saja,
The middle east conflict does not start with the capture of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah but by the events which lead to the Palestinians becoming refugees in their own homeland.
As for your comments on Prophet Mohammed I am giving a small example which should give you an idea why billions of people all over the world follow his teachings and by the way those teachings are quite different from what you have been lead to believe.
"Mohammed had great compassion and love. He served the widows and orphans, the poor, sick, aged and homeless. Once, he met an old, impoverished widow. Mohammed said to his wife, "My beloved, give food to this old woman first and then you may eat."

When the Prophet saw a blind woman stumbling in the street in Mecca, he led her gently home and thereafter took meals to her daily.

One day, he saw a woman with a heavy load on her head. At once he relieved her of her burden and carried it on his own head to her house." This is an excerpt from the website of Swami Sivananda and I am giving the link so that you may enlighten yourself.
http://www.dlshq.org/saints/mohammed.htm

Mr. Akbar doesn't seem to condemn the people who started this conflict. Hezbolla started it. Hezbolla send weapons aimning to kill only civilians into Isreal. Isreal gives adanvce notice to civilians to vacate and bombs the areas to minimize civilian deaths. Apparently Mr. Akbar doesn't think Hezbolloa is wrong. Muslims all over the world got together, condemned Isreal and one of them declared the solution to the conflict is destruction of Ireal. Islam was created by a man who had no morals and the most violent of all people who were ever born, more violent than Atilla the Hun, Stalin, Hitler. In the name of Islam Muslims invaded, conquered, killeed more people than any other ideology ever did. Allah doesn't seem to me as a God of Christians, Hindus or any other religion. Allah wants sumission, punishes those who don't accept him. Why would a Allah wants to punish people. Allah is created by Muhammad in his own image. Muhammad was not a good man So Allah can't be good.

Indians should not forget that not a single Indian Muslim is a member of Al Qaeda.
What Imam Bukhari said should be taken as the view of all Indian Muslims. Why single out Bukhari when there is a Hindu by the name of Mr. Modi of Gujarat?
I am regular visitor to Bangladesh and I can vouch that there was not a single case of atrocity on Hindu minorities when Gujarat was burning after Godhra. The adminstration headed by the BNP governemnt, although in power on the strength of alliances with fundamentalists, ensured that reprisals did not take place.
Is it difficult for any governemnt in power, with all the machinery at its disposal to stop systematic uninterrupted carnage for over a week on a section of the population?
It is high time we realised that we have not been able to integrate the Muslim community sufficiently over the last 50 years and more and failed to arrest the process of ghetto-isation. Most of us still steer clear of any truck with Muslims----antiquated Hindu social dogmas still stand in the way. We forget the number of gallant lives lost(they were all proud Indian Muslims) in the three wars with Pakistan.
We should be grateful to Nehru and grateful to Almighty as well that he lived for 17 years after independence which ensured that fundamentalist forces did not find footholds in Indian politics. Pakistan was unfortunate to loose Jinnah immediately after 1947, allowing a freeplay of religious radicals in the successive decades.
Instead of finding parallels with the west viz-a-vis their present relationship with Muslims, we should see the Indian case as a separate construct since Muslims are not immigrants here, but co-shaper of Indian destiny over centuries along with Hindus and members of other faiths.
Finally, the trouncing of the BJP in the last elections proved that politics based on religion, atleast in India does not pay.
If the average Indian felt like our esteemed bloggers, the BJP would have romped back to power by a comfortable majority.

This might help in understanding what Mr MJ Akbar is getting at! Guys remember knowledge helps when blogging. so instead of making a fool of yourselves find out more before you open your mouth!
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The 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for a comprehensive approach to solve problems affecting the West Asia. In a written statement distributed to the media on Monday, OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said UN Resolution 1559, which calls for disarming Hezbollah, was only one among the many resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council.

"Other important UN resolutions were neither implemented nor enforced. They (the UN resolutions) constitute an integral and indivisible whole and (as such) should be implemented as a whole and not on a selective basis," Prof. Ihsanoglu said in a pointed reference to UN Resolutions 242 and 338.

UN Resolution 242 was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967, in the aftermath of the six-day war. It calls for the withdrawal of Israel from territories it occupied in the 1967 war. Resolution 242 was later reaffirmed and made binding by the UN Security Council Resolution 338 after the 1973 Ramadan War (the Israelis refer to it as the Yom Kippur War).

The non-implementation of these resolutions has been repeatedly mentioned in the Arab media as being the main source of conflict in the region. "It (the non-implementation) speaks volumes about Israeli contempt for the international community. Both Israel and the US keep harping about Resolution 1559 while conveniently forgetting 242 and 338," Al-Watan Arabic daily pointed out in a recent editorial.

Other newspapers in the region have often argued along the same lines. In his column this week, Khaled Almaeena, the editor-in-chief of the Jeddah-based Arab News, reiterated that Israeli occupation and the non-implementation of UN Resolutions 242 and 338 were the real problems.

"To have peace, the world should see that the real problem is the occupation and the non-implementation of UN Resolutions 242 and 338, both of which are gathering dust. The only way real peace will come is when the UN seriously implements these programmes," he wrote.

At a press conference in Washington on Friday, US secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is currently visiting the region, repeatedly spoke about Resolution 1559. Many in the region were incensed by her repeated references to 1559.

"I read the full text of Ms Rice's press conference on the Washington Post website. She mentioned 1559 more than 10 times. Go read it for yourself. From her talk it seemed non-implementation of 1559 was the only cause of all problems. Who are they kidding? Why don't they (the US and Israel) mention 242 and 338? Israeli occupation is the main problem," wrote Mohammed A. al-Dukhail on a popular Arabic website.

"Ms Rice blamed Hezbollah for violating every conceivable international norm, not to mention a number of international UN Security Council resolutions, but she didn't refer to the misdeeds of rogue ally Israel nor did she condemn Israeli barbarity.

Two weeks into the one-sided war, we still see Israeli jets pounding Lebanon," Al-Dukhail wrote in his post in Arabic. The general view on the Arab street is that the West and Israel only refer to the UN resolutions when it suits their purpose. "Israel is flouting dozens of UN resolutions in relation to illegal occupation of land and holding nuclear arms but no one really says anything. On the other hand, countries like Iraq are sucked dry and bombed and then reduced to ashes,"said a letter writer in a Cairo-based English magazine.

The OIC secretary-general said a comprehensive approach was required in order "to root out the causes of tension provoked by Israeli occupation of Arab territories and which has brought the West Asia to a boiling point, making it one of the world's most volatile areas and also a fertile ground for extremists to carry out acts of violence."

Qouting out of context, prejudice, superficial knowledge of history is typical of some of half full vessels among the commemtors here.

Chechans are fighting for their independence from russia which has forcefully accupied their land. Chechans are muslims and wish to have their own Islamic state. Let them do anything they wish to do with their society.

If anybody wishes to comment on the history of muslims, its best to read it first. They have always brought prosperity to the land they ruled - Spain, Africa, India (muslims adopted india as their home and died in india as compared to british who were the first to systematically plundered india and incited the hindus against the muslim for their benefit. historically, people from Indian subcontinent have lived peacefully, until recently during partition of India). Read about how Islam was the gateway for knowledge (industrial revolution) within Europe, by reading about the Moors who ruled spain for 1000 years.

Last but not the least, I wish to attach the statement of Imam Bukhari in full (from the souce qouted by one of the commentor) as it makes more sense than being qouted out of context as most non muslims do even with regards to the contents of the Quraan.

''I can say with authority that it is not any Muslim but the Shiv Sena, the RSS and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad who are responsible for the serial blasts in Mumbai,'' Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari told a gathering inside the historic mosque.

He cited the recent Sena backlash against the defilement of a statue of the late wife of the party chief as evidence that the Saffron forces were desperate to politically revive themselves in Maharashtra.

The Imam was of the opinion that Muslim men were being blamed for ''every'' terrorist outrage as part of a deep rooted conspiracy.

Community members were being harassed by law enforcing agencies in Mumbai in the wake of the serial blasts even though they had ''no role in the anti-Islamic outrages'', he said, slamming the Congress Governments in Maharashtra and at the Centre.

''Why is it that security forces blame the Lashkar-e-Toiba within ten minutes of a blast. If they already know who did it, why don't they go ahead and arrest the culprits well before the crime is done,'' he asked.

He said he was willing to visit Pakistan and ''talk'' to the LeT commanders if he was given proof of its involvement in terrorist incidents in India. ''If they are responsible then we will talk to them, tell them that they do more harm to the cause of Islam and to Muslims in India through their actions''.

Imam Bukhari said he was worried that while real culprits went scot free and trigerred more blasts, ordinary Muslims were becoming terror suspects in the eyes of the people and the police. ''Every bearded man becomes a suspect'', he said.

Charging the security forces with perpetrating excesses on Muslims, he said terrorism could not be wiped out in such a manner.

''If you want to end terrorism, then you would also have to end State terrorism''.

''The Government should handle the issue of terrorism tactfully.

We want equality before the law'', he said, alleging that the ''yardstick'' was different when it concerned violence perpetrated by Maoists and insurgent groups in the North-East.

He hit out at the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, saying these ''so-called secular parties'' were to blame for all the ills afflicting Muslims today.

''When Muslims get targeted under these so called secular parties, it is time we teach them a lesson. It is time Shias, Sunnis, Ansaris, Saifis, Barelvis, Qureshis and all else stand up as one -- as Muslims -- and snatch back our collective rights and dignity,'' the Imam said, asking the community to stand up to the political challenge.

''We were rulers here for 800 years. Inshaallah, we shall return to power here once again'', he said to loud approval by the nearly 200 assembled men.

you willfully or blissfully or knowingly ignorant indians shouting/crying/moaning about the aggreession shown by muslims around the world must realise that this is in actual effect a response to the occupation,injustice,oppression meted out to them by the non-muslims(collectively)around the world.
most of you highlighting the harassment against the kashmiri pundits will never want to talk about the atrocities of the indian soldiers(rss fanatics) over the ordinary kashmiri/gujarati muslim WOMAN and CHILDREN.Will any of you feel good(or proud) about your OWN SISTERS/WIVES/MOTHERS BEING RAPED/KILLED??? SEARCH YOUR MATERIALISTIC SOULS you so called proud anti-muslims. sit down and talk to your own woman folks how they will feel about getting rap....etc. etc.

So Susenjit Guha, do you mean to say that the 1000 odd years tyranical Muslim rule on INDIA was a result of some action against them by Hindus???????

as Mr.Vik said
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So Mr Akbar, do wake up & realize, the day you Muslims put down the sword, and stop living by it, so shall you stop dying by it as one reaps what one sows. And over a thousand years, Islam has indeed sowed a lot of pain, misery and violence- all of which is now being visited upon its proponents.
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and one more form the chief mullah of delhi
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We were rulers here for 800 years. Inshaallah, we shall return to power here once again'', he said to loud approval by the nearly 200 assembled men.
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the Muslims beleive that they are supreme and they are destined to rule the world, thats the thing that has to change if they want to have a meaningful discussions with people of other religions.

Muslims in INDIA take out rally's against ISRAEL killing palestine people(forget whose right for a moment), did you see any muslim taking out a rally in protest against killing off 100 amarnath yatris(HINDUS) in kashmir who were killed at point blank.
The main problem is that the muslims in any country do not identify themselves with that country, they identify themselves with the arabistan.Let me give you an example,Dilip Kumar who earned name fame and respect by taking an hindu name collected money from INDIAN muslims for chechen terrorists(and we all know what happened, they attacked school in russia!!!). Did he ever collect a single penny for kashmiri pundits who have been thrown out of their own land???.
Hindus do beleive in the concept of live and let live, did you ever see or hear any muslim speaking the same????

Bharat should know that indian Muslims had condemned the Mumbai blasts and they had joined the peace processions in large numbers.

I guess Indians who do not subscribe to the traditional Indian ethos, see red whenever there is a terrorist attack and the perpetrators are Muslims.

The Bharat's of Bharat unfortunately miss the vital point that the fate of Muslims and Hindus are inter-twinned in the making of a strong India.

There simply cannot be a smoke without a fire and Indian Hindus cannot absolve themselves of the responsibility to improve the lot of their Muslim brethren. One cannot concieve of an India lauded by pundits to bump off even China in the long run, to be Hindu alone.

Again, major Indian cities, except Kolkata mourned by maintaining the token silence for the blast victims. It is only the Indian Left which shies away from overt expressionism of bereavement when pundits get massacred in Kashmir or hapless Indians get blasted off by suspected Islamic fundamentalists.

Ajay Kumar should learn that Muslims hailing from West Bengal are not Bangladeshis. They are Indians who speak Bengali or Urdu.

Mr.Akbar is a concieted person who sees no evil in his own kind.
To him 9/11 is still an event orchestrated by USA. Has any of his articles condemned the massacre of 400 Russian Children. He was a spoon of Rajiv Gandhi and wanted to get close to the Nehru family, however, knowing him fully well Sonia Gandhi did not encourage him - so he has taken recourse to writing some fanatic articles - trying to get support of some Jehadies. He claims to be a Kashmiri but actually is a Bangladeshi who grew up in Chandernagore.

It is worth noting that Deobandi Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind secretary Maulana Abdul Hameed Noumani said

"Those who say Gujarat and Babri Masjid are the cause don't know what they are talking about. There is no root cause for this. The problem is some fringe group which may brainwash a few into believing they are persecuted. Such people are usually isolated from the larger community."

Israel need not bother itself with the anger it generates amongst Muslims. That anger has existed for more than a few decades now and it has made Israel stronger than ever before. What Muslims need to consider is that by continuing to blackmail the rest of humanity with militant belligerence and medieval tantrums over every perceived injustice, they make liberal and secular people like myself root ever-more for Israeli methods against her Islamist adverseries. Islamists organizations supported by Iran, Syria and Pakistan espouse violent methods and a corrupted ideology intricate to much of Islamic history. We have had enough of it and any further appeasement will only embolden them to inflate their assumption of martial and ideological superiority over freedom-loving liberal societies. People like MJ Akbar need to realize that Islamist rhetoric, however subtle, has nothing special to offer to humanity and it is Muslims who need to make an effort to coexist peacefully with other faiths and ideologies. Even peace-loving and highly educated Muslims have a strong propensity to buffer the militancy that runs rampant amongst followers of Islam by making excuses for terrorism and feigning ignorance about the violent methods prescribed by Islamic teachings. Politically speaking, the Palestinians have legitimate grievances with regards to their territorial claims but they have long lost the moral high ground necessary to paint Israel as an aggressor nation. As long as liberal societies of the world continue to face terror inspired by Islam, the world is better served by giving Islamists a bloody nose as and when the chance arises. Their anger, prejudice and hatred for everything that isn't Islamic can be taken for granted no matter what Israel or the US do in Lebanon or Iraq. It is best to crush them with an iron hand. Good luck and God speed to Israel. By standing firm, they have drawn a line in the sand that will inspire many other nations to reconsider their timid response to the Islamist threat.

M.J.Akbar has not talked about the psyche of the muslim world that, despite being perpetrators of terrorism globally, acts as if it has been victimized somehow.
Terrorism today is synonymous with muslim terrorism. Recently India saw terrorism when some bombs exploded in Mumbai (Bombay). Muslim community in India was muted in its response. Did M.J.Akbar criticize that incident? I am not sure if he did.

It seems there is always a cancer when Muslims are involved and not just in the Middle-east. Last week in India where 200 people were snuffed out by Muslim 'anger' as revenge (yet again) for the 'Gujarat riots'. As a real topper, the Imam of the Jama Masjid had this to say:

".... It is time Shias, Sunnis, Ansaris, Saifis, Barelvis, Qureshis and all else stand up as one -- as Muslims -- and snatch back our collective rights and dignity,''

''We were rulers here for 800 years. Inshaallah, we shall return to power here once again'', he said to loud approval by the nearly 200 assembled men.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20060718/394446.html

Muslims need to consider how much anger they have created in the hearts of the undecided, and whether, in the long run, their actions unintentionally might have fostered support and sympathy for Ferdinand and Isabella. Religion should not be left to the ideologues.

MJ Akbar continues peddling the same old tired line about Muslim anger. So the Muslims are angry. So what! They will get hammered. And so they should. Gentlemen, this is no longer medieval South Asia, where being a Muslim could allow you to rape, ravage and slaughter non Muslims- ie Hindus & Buddhists in plenty. If after centuries of the most depraved behaviour Muslims have a victim complex, let them look within. Ultimately, the followers of a religion behave as the founder- Mohammad was no icon of peace or moderation, and his bloody deeds live on in the antics of his confused followers. They see no issues in suicide bombing buses, but wail when a F-16 launches a bomb at them!
Such are the followers of Islam.
So Mr Akbar, do wake up & realize, the day you Muslims put down the sword, and stop living by it, so shall you stop dying by it as one reaps what one sows. And over a thousand years, Islam has indeed sowed a lot of pain, misery and violence- all of which is now being visited upon its proponents.

As an outsider with no deep knowledge of the middle east one gets a feeling that both sides are acting like criminal convicts on the grounds of the prison with the larger bully (Israel) landing more punches but the smaller bully (Hezbullah)still insisting on landing a few of his own (Afer all both are convicts for a reason).
As for the implications of this conflict on India, I think that the Indian's of any religious background should be Indians first and as such the Shia population of India should not be aroused by what is happening in the middle east. IT IS NOT OUR FIGHT & WE CAN NOT CHANGE THE WHOLE WORLD.lETS JUST MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS & PROSPER SO THAT TOMORROW THE WORLD LISTENS TO US --IN THE UN MAYBE what say?

The attack on Civilians by Israel need to be condemned. Is that all. why the world is not condemning the attack on Isreali Civilians by the Hizbollah and other terrorist organisations like the Hamas.

Why we find no response from the Muslims worldwide in condemning the attacks on India and Indians that take place at all places like Varanasi, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, J&K etc and still no response. Leave the Muslims of the world they are outsiders. Why the Indian Muslims (leaving the common ones) including the Clerics had not condemned the attacks in Mumbai. Why they had not uttered a single word against those terrorists. When attacks happen somewhere in Lebanon or Some cartoons are drawn in Denmark we see all kinds of demonstrations by the Muslim clergy and their supporters. Where are these people now. Don't they show any sympathy for their own brothers in India and those poor killed in the Mumbai blasts which included Indians of all religions. The Muslim clergy seems hand in hand with the terrorists and is supporting these terrorists. I feel that the clergy need to be weakened and their power and status in the Muslim society need to be taken away or else we will be moving from bad to worse. A reform in Muslim society is required and it must start from Indian Muslims.

The attitude of most islamists and their sympathizers consists of first attacking innocent civilians followed by playing the "Great Brave Righteous Victim". To put it in a simplified manner "First the Islamists throw a stone on a house, in response to which when cops come calling with a batton, they start shouting... Police Brutality". This is how the game is played in a larger context - with much more lethal consequences for the victims of these islamists as well as the loved ones of their loved ones - a bomb targetted at a Terrorist wont distinguish between him and his innocent kid. To blame the Air Force for targetting the terrorist who has killed innocents is naive at best malicious at worst.

On the specific issue of Israel and its place in the Middle East. Those who whine and moan about Israeli occupation would do well to remember that the Arabs ganged-up and attacked Israel several times since 1948 - with the explicit goal of "destroying the zionist entity and finishing the Jews"
Unfortunately for the Arabs/ Muslims , the Jews are no longer the meek sheep they were for most of their history and cleaned the Arab clock every time.
Those Arabs who made peace with Israel (to wit Egypt and Jordan) - got their land back. Nothing stops the Palestenians or the Syrians to make peace with Israel either. We don't expect them to be the best of friends - but they certainly can learn to co-exist in their own separate states.
If they choose to play the jehadi game - with the aid of Iran and its catpaw - Hezbollah - they will pay a steep, painful and humiliating price.

MJ Akbar makes the same mistake which EVERY Muslim commentator makes.
He speaks about the "anger" which israel and the United States (lets say the infidels) create in the hearts of the muslims (Arabs, Pakis and others)
He does not see the anger which Muslims have managed to create in the hearts of non-Muslims through their evil, exclusionary behaviour and words.
The path muslims have taken leads to war and certain destruction for them. Offcourse the rest of the world will pay a price; but nothing compared to what the muslim world will have to pay.
The rest of the world is increasingly seeting with rage at the muslim world's propensity to behave like victims - after they start a conflict. Their paranoia at every precieved insult to either islam or its founder, their resort to terrorism at every "provocation" , and their failure to understand the principal of reciprocity in human and national relations. Thus as an example, while muslims expect freedom to propogate their faith in the rest of the world, they are loathe to give non-muslims the same right in muslim majority countries! Such hypocricy is revolting and will not stand.
Ultimately the fate of islam rests in the hands of muslims. If they reform and start showing a willingness to co-exist with non-muslims - in a world which is NEVER going to become a Caliphate of their delusional dreams - they will be all-right.
Otherwise I can't see how the path they are on - with dreams about conquest and converting the whole world - will result in anything other than the world reforming islam by force. And that will hurt.

M.J. is right. People in the Arab world see US inaction for what it is -- a carte blanche for Israel to continue its barbaric assault on a sovereign nation. Also when people in the Middle East keep hearing about UN Resolution No. 1559 which calls for disarming of Hezbollah, they talk about UN Resolution Nos. 242 and 338 which specifically call on Israel to vacate territories it seized in previous wars. As M.J. rightly concludes "(Israeli) actions ... have fostered support and sympathy for Hezbollah." Very, very true.