In covering the Samjhauta Express fire, the Sydney Morning Herald brings up Godhra at the very end. Now take a close look at the ending paragraphs, because they are relaying the psecular Indian congressi and communist opinion, which had been carefully manufactured precisely to create this international odium:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/train-sui...1733662974.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Train 'suitcase bombs' kill at least 64</b>
February 19, 2007 - 1:56PM
Twin blasts aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan that killed at least 64 people were probably "an act of terror'', a spokesman for India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says.
"This is what it suggests, that it was an act of terror,'' spokesman Sanyaja Baru said.
A top state government official said most of the victims were Pakistanis but included some Indian security personnel.
Two suitcases filled with flammable material which investigators believe may have been explosive devices were found at the scene, said VN Mathur, general manager of the Northern Railway.
He said one was found inside a burned coach and the other on the railroad track.
Speaking to reporters at the scene, India's junior railways minister R Velu, said: "We have 64 bodies.''
The fire engulfed two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, one of two train links between rivals India and Pakistan.
Because of security concerns, the train is kept sealed - with locked doors and barred windows in the lower-class coaches - from New Delhi to the border, and passengers may have been trapped inside the burning cars.
The fire broke out just before the train reached the station in the village of Deewana, about 80km north of New Delhi.
People who live near the tracks rushed to the train with buckets of water soon after the fire broke out, and the blaze was eventually extinguished after fire trucks arrived.
At least 30 passengers who were burned or injured in the blaze have been hospitalised in the nearby town of Panipat, Mathur told reporters.
The train was travelling from New Delhi to Atari, the last railroad station before the border with Pakistan.
The train links are one of the most visible results of the peace process underway between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, and one of the easiest ways to travel between the two countries.
Within hours of the fire, authorities detached the burned coaches and the rest of the train left for the India-Pakistan border.
Today's blaze immediately revived memories of one of India's worst outbreaks of sectarian bloodletting - the Hindu-Muslim riots that broke out after a 2002 train fire in which 60 Hindus returning from a religious pilgrimage were killed.
<b>Muslims were blamed for the fire in the western state of Gujarat, and more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, were killed by Hindu mobs.</b>
About 84 per cent of India's more than 1 billion people are Hindu, and Muslims account for about 14 per cent.
AP<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That the AP thinks muslims were only 'blamed' and never proven to have been the cause of the Godhra train fire and murders is because of what our own psecular media and the initial motivated 'fact'-finding committee set up by the lying govt have presented in their calculated fashion.
However, this is grabbed from the air in its entirety - not even done with the aid of the inventive (that is, lying) Indian pseculars:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Muslims were blamed for the fire in the western state of Gujarat, and more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, were killed by Hindu mobs.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What? "More than 1,000 people, most of them muslim" all killed by 'Hindu mobs' - including the Hindu victims? What have these reporters been smoking? All of the >1000 people 'killed by Hindu mobs'? Who said? Not even minorityist psecular Mira Kamdar says that. She glosses over Hindu deaths (including the initial deaths of the Godhra train victims) - naturally; and glorifies the victimhood of the islamics - of course.
See the bit in red, with the surrounding section for context:
http://koenraadelst.voi.org/articles/fas...amdar.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>6. The Godhra carnage</b>
In her paper, Mira Kamdar defends the well-known position of a fraction in Indiaâs ideological landscape which calls itself âsecularistâ. It will be clear by now that this so-called âsecularismâ is a deeply flawed political identity, but I will give Ms. Kamdar credit for being rather more even-handed in her presentation than is common in secularist sources. Thus, she writes:
âOn February 27, a train carrying Hindu militants back from a trip to Ayodhya, where they had gone to press anew for the construction of a temple on the site of the razed Babri mosque, stopped in the small town of Godhra, near Ahmedabad, in Gujarat. What happened next is not entirely clear, except for the fact that a Muslim mob set fire to the train, killing 58 people, mostly women and children.â
Most Hindutva sources, searchable on the internet but otherwise quite unreported in the Western media, have emphasized that most victims were âwomen and childrenâ, implying a big question-mark over the description of the Godhra victims as âmilitantsâ. Because of this inconvenient implication, most authors propagating the âsecularistâ viewpoint before ignorant Western audiences have simply left out the detail that the victims were âmostly women and childrenâ, so as to make the allegation of âmilitancyâ more credible, along with the justifying suggestion that those fanatics had it coming to them. Well, it is to Ms. Kamdarâs credit that she didnât play this game of deception. But it weakens her plea against Hindutva, for it amounts to an admission that the whole Gujarat carnage started with innocent Hindus being victimized. And in the blame game, it remains crucial which side is in a position to say: âYou started it!â
Just how crucial, is illustrated by Mira Kamdarâs attempt, later on, to depict the Muslim participation in the subsequent riots as âretaliatoryâ, a characterization withheld from the Hindu retaliation: <b>âOnce the violence got underway, there were <i>retaliatory</i> attacks by Muslims on Hindus.â</b> (emphasis added) It all depends at what moment you start counting. That is why many âsecularistâ references to the Gujarat riots now simply leave the initial Godhra episode unmentioned, just as most secularist accounts of the Mumbai riots of January 1993 pass over the initial Muslim attacks in silence. This is like letting World War II start with the Allied âaggressionâ in Normandy in 1944, opposed by German âdefenders of Europeâ.
But if in the case of Gujarat the Muslim initiative cannot be denied, it can at least be minimized and even, to some extent, justified: âConspiracy theories aside, when a trainload of Hindu militants stops in a Muslim area, when taunts and insults begin to fly, it doesnât take much to imagine how the situation can get badly out of control.â While this sentence deals with an attack of Muslims on Hindus, note how the author manages to describe the Hindus, and only the Hindus, as âfanaticsâ. And note that whereas the subsequent Hindu violence is attributed to the VHP, the Bajrang Dal, Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other named agents, the initial Muslim attack is not ascribed to conscious agents but reduced to an impersonal fact of life: âinsults begin to flyâ, âthe situation gets out of controlâ. It seems that jihad really is the work of Heaven, not of man.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Point is: islamics killed Hindus in the riots too, <i>though on this particular occasion</i> Hindus killed more islamics. (The total deaths amounting to > 1,000 people, with somewhere between 200 and 300 Hindus dead, if I recall rightly.) Now, unless the press is willing to describe both the Hindus and islamists involved in the riots subsequent to the train terorism as 'mobs', then I'm okay (at least it's even-handed). But where they mention only 'Hindu mobs' and also imply that only the Hindus killed all of the 1000+ people (including the hundreds of Hindu victims of the riots!), this just shows up how predisposed western media is to believe only the psecular and islamic narrative. Unreliable.
What next? Will the same press write that Theo van Gogh stabbed himself? Or that that Dutch member of parliament (also murdered by an islami) assassinated himself?
Or are the islamic players in these events acknowledged and reported by the otherwise-biased press only because the victims are of European extraction? When Hindus die at islamic hands, they don't matter I suppose.
