Your baseless, poorly referenced, pro indian backed data is not worth an argument and many members in this forum will agree, other than your usual sheep who are ill informed about the reality. I can use Arundhati Roy's arguments and claim its written by an Indian writer but that will not add more credibility to my argument, although she is internationally known for her activistism. Without rhetoric and mischievous under pinning of other people, you arguments lack serious basis. Your delusional little world, gives you mind orgasms about achievements you haven't still made. Your arrogance can be well understood and determination to reject constant facts is reflective of your preset minded indoctrinated through years in the army and off course the old age which is foreign and hostile to new ideas. You are indeed a patriot meaning what a wise man once said "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel".
In almost all your posts, you try to intimidate arguments by referring to culture and religion as the root problem. You talk about credible sources but all you can do is use google it and use wikipedia. You choose a side and look for arguments instead of the other. Your inferiority complex which you expose by taking insulting and humiliating others to make yourself feel better is very shameful given you are an army personal and off old age, whom a nation is to admire and respect. Your self claimed suggestion that you are intellectually superior than me is a product of your hallucination, old man.
How droll!
Indian biased!
Old man? Maybe compared to those who claim they are in the process of exiting the womb like a Paratrooper!
I don't argue, I debate. You maybe of the argumentative variety, if you will. Each of my points are substantial, for if they were not, you would have swooped down like a hungry hawk. You have not been able to demolish any of my point and instead are merely raving and frothing at the bit out of sheer incompetent helplessness.
I am the least indoctrinated person since I believe one must express their views, though rants require to be gently demolished lest those ranting start getting indoctrinated in their regurgitation and die in the mush they exude.
Patriot I am and I make no apologies for it. Jingoist I am not, which most of you all are and hence you appear ludicrous!
Google and wikipedia give the gist and so are useful and what is more, since you have no eye for detail, wikipedia gives credible sources as footnotes. Now, if those scholarly tomes are ridiculous, then the world is ridiculous! But then, it is fashionable to run down Wikipedia and the sheep follows the herd! Therefore, who is the sheep and a goat rolled in one, one wonders.
Culture plays a part in shaping the mindset. It requires scholarship to realise that and in case you haven't, it speaks volumes. If culture did not play a role, then what would be difference in people of different areas of the world, apart from the colour of their skin? How is it that culturally a Bengali of India finds it easier to culturally identify with the Bangladeshi than with, let us say, a Punjabi? How would you explain that when Mujib addressed a rally in Calcutta after being released from prison, there was a crowd larger than what any Indian leader could muster or when Bulganin and Krushchev came to India?
Religion plays an important and overwhelming role in the Muslim world. If you have read Abir's post on the ummah you would realise it. You all go to town over ummah and Muslim brotherhood (see the post here on the forum itself) and yet the reality is that you are at each other's throat at the first opportunity. See what is happening in Palestine that you all talk about! Piety oozes in your thoughts for the Palestinians, but it is the very Muslim countries who do not even lift a finger to do anything! Now, the Muslim countries who are aligned to the US are the very ones who are busy toppling Libya, Syria and Iran. And yet, they will not agree to the hypocrisy they are at by quoting religious scriptures and ummah and all that in the next breath. Yet, when it is all peaceful, there is no end of religion being flaunted as the last word of statehood and governance. Therefore, religion does play its role in Islamic countries, like it or not while it does not in non Islamic countries! Therefore, it is not I who is delusional, it is you who wallow in fond delusions!
I daresay I have any complexes - inferior or superior. I say as it appears. When you all revel in canards and daydreams and you are put in your place, it makes you squirm and hence you ascribe all sorts of negativity to my psyche. But then, you will naturally be what you are - Don Quixotes!
I do not claim that you are inferior intellectually. You only prove so with your generalised harangue.
Anyway, enough said.
You go your way and be happy!
Hakuna Matata!
You're heading the same path.
