By Syed M.Aslam
Dec
17 -30 , 2001
*** "KAFAN CHOR GADDI CHHORO (Coffin
Thieves Must Quit)."
(Slogan chanted by opposition parties during the
assembly session asking the coalition government of Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee to quit power amidst a new scam in the defence
department which bought over-priced caskets to carry the remains of
the soldiers killed during the Kargil war)
*** "IF HE HAS been quoted correctly, it
is very dangerous ... The idea that learning more English or an end to
faith schools will stop riots is absolute nonsense."
(Members of enquiry committee, which prepared a
report on last year's race riots in Northern England, criticizing the
Home Secretary David Blunkett for demanding the foreign origin
citizens to speak the English language)
*** "IF THE WORLD could hear what
President George W. Bush and Pentagon officials had to say, why could
it not hear Osama? And why were announcements made by the Pentagon
considered facts?"
(Deputy Chief of South African Broadcasting
Corporation, Mathatha Tesedu, expressing 'terrible disappointment' at
the disability of the US media to differentiate between propaganda and
news)
*** "ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION against
Palestinians can be summarized in just two words and that is state
terrorism ... with the backing of the (United) States, Israel has been
openly violating human rights, assassinating Palestinian leaders and
defying UN resolutions instead of liberating occupied Palestinian
land."
(Cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan,
commenting on Israeli atrocities against Palestinians)
*** "... about 90 per cent appeared to
offer a saccharine-coated version of events that is, by and large,
aligned with the Israeli camp. I think, therefore, the American public
is being ill-served."
(Senior editor of the BBC, Steve Williams,
criticizing the US for its public display of undisguised patriotism
with the least regard to professional integrity)
*** "THE UNITED STATES does not have an
interest in Afghanistan. The Bush family does. Oil. As does
Vice-President Cheney and Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld. We have a
bunch of oilmen running the country ... What is an act of terrorism?
Writing for the Daily Mail could be an act of terrorism."
(Prominent US writer Gore Vidal alleging that big
corporations are running America's 'sham democracy' killing the ideals
of the founding fathers through disastrous post-war imperialism)
*** "MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT. If the death of
innocents is wrong in New York or Washington, just give me one reason
why it's not in Afghanistan ... a sense of grievance and injustice can
fill people with resentment and despair to the point of
desperation."
(Winner of 1984 Nobel Peace Prize and South African
Anglican bishop, Desmond Tutu, opposing US military action in
Afghanistan)
*** "THE BULLSHIT just flows and flows
and flows and the American media is so corrupt and so tied into it
that it never questions it."
(Gore Vidal calling the US media, particular the
New York Times, a parrot for the rulers)
*** "... to eliminate the ancient wrongs
like the way the white people are doing in the West ... Conversions
are a revolt against Hinduism and is part of militancy, though this
does not mean that the Dalits would take up arms."
(Chairman of All India Confederation of Scheduled
Caste, Udit Raj, blaming India's ancient social system for the
miseries of the low caste Dalits or untouchables and asking the
so-called upper castes to stop derogatory treatment meted out to them)
*** "THESE POWERS are supporting the
world's biggest terrorist apparatus, namely the Zionist regime ... if
using tanks to attack people's homes is not terrorism, then what else
is? If attacking the people's homes with missiles launched from F-16
aircraft and helicopter gunship is not terrorism, then what is? The
American and British governments are partners in these crimes and
jointly responsible."
(Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
citing Afghanistan and Palestine as the prime examples of the West's
blatant assaults on the Islamic world and Muslims)
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