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Rewarding violence, in an update on this story. "Indian Kashmir revokes decision to hand over land to Hindus," from Agence France-Presse, July 1:
SRINAGAR, India - Indian Kashmir formally revoked Tuesday a decision to hand over land to Hindu pilgrims after days of violent protests that left four dead and nearly 350 injured in the Muslim region.
The decision was taken by the state cabinet which met in Srinagar, summer capital of the scenic Himalayan state where a bloody revolt has raged against Indian rule for nearly two decades.
The government order "is hereby cancelled," an official statement said.
The statement said the state government had taken charge of logistics for a major annual Hindu pilgrimage to a mountain grotto, scrapping a move to allocate land to a religious trust so it could build accommodation.
That decision provoked the riots in and around Srinagar.
Revocation of the order came as top separatists were placed under house arrest by police in a bid to avert more protests and a strike shut shops, schools, banks and post offices for a ninth day here.
The entire separatist political leadership was under house arrest, except for hardliner Syed Ali Geelani who managed to evade police, police officer Pervez Ahmed said.
Among those detained were the region's leading cleric Umar Farooq, Shabir Shah, known as Kashmir's Nelson Mandela for the years he has spent in Indian jails and Yasin Malik.
Sloppy journalism and/or bias: By whom is Shah "known as Kashmir's Nelson Mandela?"
The protests had continued despite a weekend promise by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that his cabinet would scrap the plan to allow a Hindu trust to build accommodation for visitors to a Hindu shrine. [...]
The government's move last month to provide land to the Hindu trust, the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, prompted huge protests and violent clashes across the Kashmir valley.
The protests have evoked memories of the widespread anti-India protests that swept the region after a separatist insurgency broke out in 1989.
Separatists charge the land transfer was a ploy to settle Indian Hindus in Kashmir. But officials dismiss the allegations, saying New Delhi has never tried to encourage Hindu migration to the Himalayan region.
But the government's decision to revoke the decision to give land to the trust has angered Hindus concentrated in the southern part of the region.
There were angry clashes on Tuesday between police and demonstrators in the winter capital Jammu where protesters also burnt down a police post.
Posted by Marisol at July 1, 2008 10:31 AM
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Lee Harris writes in the Suicide of Reason:
"... the secret of success of the Arab bands lay less in their own warlike qualities than in the weakness and decadence of the empires they overthrew..."
Posted by: undaunted![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 1, 2008 10:55 AM
A well known tactic mob rule and violence and the cowering of the Indian government to the demands of the Muslims. It is ironic that the Muslims where afraid of a conspiracy by the Indian government to increase Hindu population and thereby make Muslims the minority in Kashmir; a tactic, which as we know their fellow Muslims are doing all around the world and the west.
Posted by: savsiv at July 1, 2008 10:59 AM
By whom is Shah "known as Kashmir's Nelson Mandela?
Seems to be a recently resurrected appellation:
War-Weary Kashmiris Contemplate the Price of Peace
The New York Times
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Although he was once known as Kashmir's Nelson Mandela, his early hints that the rebel struggle was heading for a dead end led to his being ostracized by other leaders and to several attempts by rebel groups on his life.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E2D71E38F932A25754C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
'If a foreign power wishes to intervene and help solve the Kashmir problem, it is welcome'
Rediff on the net
July 23, 1998
And, mainly in acknowledgement of his long years in captivity, they called him Kashmir's Nelson Mandela.
http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jul/23shabir.htm
Separatist groups need to fight elections
Kashmir News
1 July 2001
Even as the DFP chief, who for his prolonged incarceration is known to his supporters as Kashmir's Nelson Mandela...
www.rediff.com/news/1998/jul/23shabir.htm
Polls Apart
India Today
July 8, 2002
While the Abdullahs were negotiating the exchange, separatist leader Shabbir Shah, known as Kashmir's Nelson Mandela for having spent over 20 years in detention...
http://archives.digitaltoday.in/indiatoday/20020708/nation.html
at July 1, 2008 11:48 AM
"Never reward unwanted behavior" - the Dog Whisperer
Posted by: Jan Sobieski at July 1, 2008 1:41 PM
More tragedy from that beautiful land. And another photo shoot for Rage Boy I bet.
Posted by: johndoe at July 1, 2008 1:41 PM
Looking from outside, this may look like a Dhimmi move. However, for those familiar with Kashmir, the current state government in Indian Kashmir is an Islamic alliance of the Congress (which in Kashmir is very much an Islamic, not secular party) and a party called the PDP, which is very closely aligned with (Indian) Kashmiri Jihadis, which is also a coalition partner in the Indian government and capable of pulling it down. As a result, what was surprising here was not this decision, but the original decision to hand over management of the temple land to the pilgrimage trust.
Wondering how exactly this shrine is intact, when thousands of temples in India were historically destroyed? Simple - this temple is a cave temple, and destroying it is as difficult as destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas were. Of course, if this Leftist alliance in New Delhi continues, don't be too surprised if that day arrives.
Only silver lining in this story is the Hindutva parties stepping up to the place and creating hell if the original decision is not followed through. However, given their dependence on regional dhimmi parties, one doubts that they'd be in a position to force the issue should they come to power in New Delhi.
As for 'Kashmir's Nelson Mandela', never heard of this thug. But wonder whether the Indian MSM realize that they are insulting Mandela rather than praising Shabir Shah - in the eyes of the overwhelming number of Indians who do lionize Mandela (I don't, I've always recognized him as a thug - just looking at his wife and the practice of necklacing that the 'Mandela Football Club' indulged in was enough of an insight into how vile this family was and is).
Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 1, 2008 1:43 PM
Nelson Mandela/Shabir Shah
Birds of a feather,
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/06/price-of-giving-in-to-terror.html
Posted by: InfidelK9 at July 1, 2008 4:27 PM
Blame it all on those bad Hindu Zionists.
Posted by: joeblough at July 1, 2008 8:14 PM
It is ironic that the Muslims where afraid of a conspiracy by the Indian government to increase Hindu population and thereby make Muslims the minority in Kashmir; a tactic, which as we know their fellow Muslims are doing all around the world and the west.
Posted by: savsiv
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That was the first thought in my mind when I read this.. maybe this is something we should use when we try to explain to our respective governments why we are opposed to moslems coming to our beautiful Western Lands..
moslems defile and despoil all the lands they enter.. I'd hatre to think whayt Europe will look like 100 years from now.
And no, leftiodts.. it won't be due to "global warming".. also rebranded as "climate change"..
islamist invasion aka "immigration" will be responsible for far more environmental devastation than that rich jerk driving his Hummer.
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at July 2, 2008 12:08 AM
"moslems defile and despoil all the lands they enter.. I'd hatre to think whayt Europe will look like 100 years from now."
Posted by: Ummah Gummah
Two of the islamic neighbourhoods in my city came up on wooded land. We used to go there for picnics and picking fruits. The first muslim shacks started coming up about 20 years back. Now both these places have lost all the trees and are a mass of slum. The areas are jam-packed with shacks and tin houses, with some structures serving as mosques. You might want to read up on the Gandhar area ; before islamic hordes invaded it, the place was lush green, now half of that country is desert. islam is like the T-virus.
Posted by: arjun.sevak at July 2, 2008 1:34 AM
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