Dont have a problem with corrupt people robbing the country blind being shot!

A British bank will fall into Asian hands.

Arsenal will win the champions league.

And #10 on the “Merry Christmas” thread

Predictions anyone?

Boris Johnson will offend an entire demographic, but it’s ok because he’s a floppy-haired upper-class goof and therefore qualified to represent London to the world.

There will be a natural disaster and some religious figure will declare it as proof that god hates the same people he does.

At least a third of the Daily Mail’s headlines will consist of a question to which the answer ‘No’ is obvious to anything with an IQ above that of a dish of kedgeree.

Putin will release a sex-tape on the internet.

Brown won’t.

Considering how unpredictable ’07 was in general, it will be interesting to see what delights ’08 brings. No doubt it will be an eventful year, both economically and (especially) politically.

I wonder where we’ll be this time next year, with regards to the situation in both Pakistan and the US.

RAMIIE

And I hope that you manage to keep plying your hair with copious amounts of cooking oil and prostrating yourself before your Arab masters.

May the pagan moon god bless your lice ridden Bangladeshi take away in 2008.

Happy New Year to All.

oh yes!
Happy New Year to all.

Hope you manage to stay off the homemade hooch and the wife-beating in 2008 Muzumdar. Happy New Year!

And then Kissinger went on to endorse Pakistan’s genocide in Bangladesh in 1971.

There was no genocide. The very idea that Muslims can commit genocide is a vicious attempt to demonise Muslims.

This is a similar tactic employed by non-Muslims to claim that the early Islamic invaders, and after them the Mughals, committed atrocities on the non-Muslim populace of the sub-continent.

Both are ridiculous suppositions, especially the Bangladeshi one.

Not a single Bangladeshi Muslim perished or was raped by the Pakistani army.

Happy new year.

Ah yes, the new year party time, time to enjoin in sin and vice, of drunkenness, sexual frivolity and all manner of frivolity!!!

Just kidding…the fundamentalist in me can’t resist sometimes. Anyway, all the best to everyone at PP for 2008.

‘Saqib, yes the Ghandis got assasinated as they were victims of their policies and the whole assassin thing is not just a south asian current either!’

I never suggested it was.

It will take time in Pakistan to change the power structures and create a real political system which is representative, transparent and accountable, and free from the type of corruption we witness. Countries progress at different rates, it is all relative.

India is, at this point far better of, however compared to Japan and South Korea, it compares unfavorably. No doubt, part of the problem for this is the hostilities between India and Pakistan, which if resolved would solve a lot of the problems.

I’d agree that Pakistan is, probably, the worlds most fragile democracy. What’s to be done about it?

Thanks for some well-needed perspective, i think there was some genuine misunderstanding.

It is however important Sofia, to distinguish between, what you call ‘riot/massacre/pogrom’. Riots have taken place in the UK in recent times, most notably in the summer of 2001, in Brixton in 1981, and let us not forget, between Muslim and Sikh youths in 1997. These riots, with all their nuances are a world away different from what took place in Gujarat in 2002 and the horrors in Bangladesh in 1971. This issue of state collusion has massive implications, for it can destroy the very fabric of trust which weaves a society together.

This is why i felt it necessary to challenge the assertion that Gujarat were ‘merely communal riots’.

Another reason why i did mention Gujarat was that the rationale for the creation of the state of Pakistan, (which Amritstar was saying should be disbanded) was that the Indian Muslims would suffer in a heavily Hindu-dominated India, because of the prevalent political and social situation. Ironically the creation of Pakistan was argued against by the religious scholars at the beginning, as they felt the new state would adopt an approach to secularism which would be anti-religion, and not merely separation.

Posts 193 to 207. Now that is what I would think of as being ‘British’. A dispute resolved by reason. Love you both, – obviously in a friendy, non sexual manner – have a happy New Year.

I am happy we cleared that up, I genuinely forgot i wrote that and was very confused with your posts, mind you, i looked a real plum with my reply! Let’s us call it a pre-new year hangover! All the best for the new year as well.