Latheef Farook

Who divided India?

Jinnah, Nehru or Hindu extremism? Muslims punished for the sin of partition. Senior Indian politician Jaswant Singh who was minister for external affairs, finance and defence, was sacked by the Bharathiya Janatha Party, a political front of Hindu extremists Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,RSS, which demands  that Indian Muslims  either give up their religion, Islam,and embrace Hinduism or leave the country. Jaswant …

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Uighur Muslims Uprisings – What China Doesn’t Want Others to Know

Violence erupted between the native Muslims and the   Hans Chinese migrant settlers on Sunday July 5 in the Western Xingjian’s predominantly Muslim region of Uighur where the people’s struggle for political and religious freedom has been suppressed for long by the Chinese authorities. Within five days 156 people, mostly Uighur Muslims were killed in the city of Urumqi  where the …

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Why This Indifference?

  One after the other political leaders from the west, especially Britain and France, rushed to the island to show their humanitarian concern for the displaced Tamils who were used as human shield by the now defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, LTTE, which claimed to fight for the interest of this very same people.    However, these Western politicians’ …

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New Dream for Tear Drop Island – Part 2

Atricle Continuation from New Dream for Tear Drop Island. Regrouping Under the circumstances, it is impossible for the LTTE   to regroup.  Numerous factors that favoured the LTTE in their early stages  had turned against them  today. The changing regional and international political scenarios virtually crippled the LTTE with India, Pakistan China and Russia standing behind Sri Lankan government while   …

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New Dream for Tear Drop Island

Now that the dreaded Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, which was all out to set up a separate Tamil state in the predominantly Tamil speaking North and East of Sri Lanka, is crushed the nation is celebrating the victory while northern Tamils remain disillusioned. There have been numerous sessions of peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and the …

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Can BJP with its anti minority ideology call for sanctions on Sri Lanka?

Minority Muslims of more than 150 millions have been suppressed, sidelined and silenced in India Yashwant Sinha, senior leader of Baharatiya Janata Party, BJP, the political face of Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, has demanded that India imposes sanctions on Sri Lanka for its treatment of Tamil civilians trapped in the island’s war zone. No doubt and No question …

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