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Mobashar Jawed "M.J." Akbar (born 11 January 1951) is an Indian politician. He is also a veteran Indian journalist and author of several books.
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βJihad is the signature tune of Islamic history. If todayβs Muslim rulers are reluctant to sound that note, it is often because they are concerned about the consequences of failure.β
βJust as Hitler had given a frustrated Germany a target and that target was the Jew, so through the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, a frustrated country was given a target and that target was the Muslim.β
βIt is extremely symbolic that Advani is the heir of Nathuram Godse who, in pursuit of what he was convinced was his duty to India, shot dead the man who had chanted the name of Ram all his life till his last breath.β
βWhile the landlords and capitalists allowed the clergy to make Pakistan a religious state, the clergy allowed the landlords guaranteed property rights and the capitalists unbridled control over the economy. Theocracy and landlordism/capitalism are the two pillars of Pakistan and Bangladesh.β
βThere is no pain in life, they say in Granada, so cruel as to be blind in Alhambra. When the Arabs of the desert conquered Spain, they said that they had reached heaven. From the ramparts of the Alhambra, sitting on a spur of the Sierra Nevada, look out and you see a paradise created by nature; look in and you see a paradise created by man.β
About M. J. Akbar
Mobashar Jawed "M.J." Akbar (born 11 January 1951) is an Indian politician. He is also a veteran Indian journalist and author of several books.