Comments on: Book Rage http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/book_rage.html what is the vertiginous chapati saying to me? Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:26:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Biloo http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/book_rage.html/comment-page-1#comment-3339 Biloo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/uncategorized/book_rage#comment-3339 I can't help but think of how riled up the heathens got at the thought of biting into pork/beef-greased bullets in 1857. This kind of thing always ends badly. I'm not suggesting that anything on the scale of the Sepoy Rebellion will happen now, but it's just not good times. I can’t help but think of how riled up the heathens got at the thought of biting into pork/beef-greased bullets in 1857. This kind of thing always ends badly.

I’m not suggesting that anything on the scale of the Sepoy Rebellion will happen now, but it’s just not good times.

]]> By: Sohail http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/book_rage.html/comment-page-1#comment-3340 Sohail Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/uncategorized/book_rage#comment-3340 It's a very good written piece, Sepoy, although, in one small article, u have touched upon two very different sides of the same issue - one, the difference between the way South Asians and the Arabs rever the Quran and two, the possible consequences of the mode of rattling prisoners, which CIA has reportedly adopted. Thanks, too, for introducing me to the term "blowback". I dont intend to defend Muslim fanatics, but it should be clear to the world that terrorism like all crimes is a disease and needs to be cured rather than stamped out. Those who have procalimed war against terrorism obviously know this but dont care what their actions might lead to. It’s a very good written piece, Sepoy, although, in one small article, u have touched upon two very different sides of the same issue – one, the difference between the way South Asians and the Arabs rever the Quran and two, the possible consequences of the mode of rattling prisoners, which CIA has reportedly adopted. Thanks, too, for introducing me to the term “blowback”. I dont intend to defend Muslim fanatics, but it should be clear to the world that terrorism like all crimes is a disease and needs to be cured rather than stamped out. Those who have procalimed war against terrorism obviously know this but dont care what their actions might lead to.

]]> By: actualfactual http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/book_rage.html/comment-page-1#comment-3341 actualfactual Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/uncategorized/book_rage#comment-3341 As a devoutly atheist Englishman (albeit with a copy of the Qu'ran and a Bible on my bookshelf and the knowledge that it really is a bad idea to order the steak if you've gone out to dinner with the parents of your equally atheist English girlfriend who just happens to have Indian, Hindu parents), I find myself disagreeing with you on this one. The problem is (and I'm sure this is the problem for many Western liberals i.e. Mr Hitchens) I can't <i>exactly</i> pin down where my disquiet lies (there's a long treatise somewhere in my thoughts, but that's more for a personal post on my own site than for a comment here). In the end it comes down to cultural differences - I find destroying books abhorrent - I don't care what the book is: the bible, Qu'ran or Enid Blyton - but I find the idea of flying planes into buildings, blowing myself up in an Israeli cafe full of teeneagers or dropping a bomb on a market because there are "enemy combatants" in the area far, far worse..... As a devoutly atheist Englishman (albeit with a copy of the Qu’ran and a Bible on my bookshelf and the knowledge that it really is a bad idea to order the steak if you’ve gone out to dinner with the parents of your equally atheist English girlfriend who just happens to have Indian, Hindu parents), I find myself disagreeing with you on this one.
The problem is (and I’m sure this is the problem for many Western liberals i.e. Mr Hitchens) I can’t exactly pin down where my disquiet lies (there’s a long treatise somewhere in my thoughts, but that’s more for a personal post on my own site than for a comment here).
In the end it comes down to cultural differences – I find destroying books abhorrent – I don’t care what the book is: the bible, Qu’ran or Enid Blyton – but I find the idea of flying planes into buildings, blowing myself up in an Israeli cafe full of teeneagers or dropping a bomb on a market because there are “enemy combatants” in the area far, far worse…..

]]> By: Alan Little http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/imperial_watch/book_rage.html/comment-page-1#comment-3342 Alan Little Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/uncategorized/book_rage#comment-3342 It occurs to me to wonder: could this have something to do with Indian (and Pakistani too, up to only a generation or so ago) Muslims being surrounded by/steeped in Hindu culture - i.e. picking up influences from the dodgy idolators? It occurs to me to wonder: could this have something to do with Indian (and Pakistani too, up to only a generation or so ago) Muslims being surrounded by/steeped in Hindu culture – i.e. picking up influences from the dodgy idolators?

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