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Essentially, modern day southern Spain (Gibraltar included) or Andalusia were ravaged by hordes and hordes of Muslim rulers even though the rule was established by the Umayyads and later on the Moors. You know how were they defeated and overthrown from Andalusia ? When the king of Spain and...

LMAO, i have been seeing this unity since the birth of this theocracy between Ali's followers and Abu Bakr's followers. What fellow Muslims did in Andalusia. In the modern times, between Jordan and the Palestinians in 1970. We saw the Muslim unity in 1971 in Shonar Bangla. Also in Iran-Iraq in...

Your posts, my friend, are amongst the most pragmatic ones i have seen on this forum. If only people were as realistic as you, human capital can be harnessed to the best potential possible. But instead, people caught in this theocratic and historical baggage, are weighed down and simply unable...

It is indeed amazing that at an age when Man aims for stratospheric jumps, moon missions, these subcontinental Muslims still peddle this Global Ummah-Chummah Fiqh-Munafiqh nonsense around. A council that is going to teach stone-age principles completely orthogonal to the principles of science...

I read of Jinnah's definition for the current state of Pakistan somewhere along these lines in ET.

Tamil-Marathi hybrid here. Tamil Iyer father, Marathi Joshi mother ; And the interesting part, speak Hindi at home !!!

I understand that feeling. Some people think they are too big for their pants to even be amiable to each other. Wish he would go out more in the real world to see how differences between these Asian communities collapse.

I am really surprised at the animosity shown by anonymous posters at their fellow Chinese for simply supporting an Indian. They need to get a dose of reality here in Cornell and elsewhere in the US as to how Chinese and Indians work together as labmates. This is hilarious to the point of being...

Wikipedia huh ? Well, all i have are first hand experiences. But On Topic of sectarianism, it is infested even in our Society which is as deep as these caste divides.

Well i sincerely do not know what context that divide has in the modern fabric of our society. But, i do know where does the hatred start for them and where does it translate to. The divisions are economic, social, sectarian, and what not. They may have hatred on account of economic disparities...

This Shia family, that i know of, is an Ansari. But they are treated like dirt by these Siddiquis, who think of themselves as Nawabs even though they are as backward as they get in their thinking. Sometimes, i feel that reconciling all these differences amongst their very own Ummah-Chummah...

True that ; I still remember an incident in Delhi which made me acquainted with their rivalry. And add in the caste warfare (oh yes, there are upper caste and lower caste Muslims too) and its a deadly cocktail. One of our drivers, this guy who is a Sunni, accuses his neighborly Shia of feeding...

We actually see the status of inter-state relations between US and Pakistan as a fact. Having your sovereignty violated day-in and day-out by MQ-9s and having Stealth-choppers coming to Abbotabad unannounced is not an achievement exactly. If that is the kind of inter-state relations between...

Unfortunately, Imran Khan will continue Musharraf's policies of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds. And the Pakistanis who are buoyant of his arrival will realize that he will bend over backwards to accommodate the Americans or the Brits or the Chinese whoever pays him money. The...

Wow, i have seen some Propaganda in my lifetime (PakiLeaks and the likes) , but this is something that takes the cake. Why ? Read On. Pakistani girl brought to US for treatment 'disfigured by her own nation's military'.

Do not be harsh on him. We are here to clear our misconceptions about something that is fundamental on computer programming whose building blocks have been so very carefully laid out through years of effort. One thing we do not want is mash up different concepts and thereby diminish our...

Nope it has not even solved an iota of the concepts i studied in Compilers 101. Late binding and object pointers do not necessarily mean a complete programming language. For kicks, here is the original paper "glorifying" Sanskrit (Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial...

To me as a CS guy, that statement is outrageously and outrightly incorrect. In order to become a successful(widely used) language, it needs to have syntax, declarations, scoping, binding, intermed. code and finally a way existing machines can understand (am not talking about Machine code but...

Wow ; talk about revisionism in History, a victim mentality, self-pity and finally a perennial and morbid fear of its neighboring country. This blog is summed up with all the above qualities.

Unfortunately, Pakistan will continue to burn and explode internally due to their policies of raising snakes in their backyard. Right from the era of Bhutto, and then on to Zia, labeling itself as the torchbearer of Islam and passing laws justifying the same has bought this upon themselves. The...