Apr 14, 2004: Bollywood's Terror Compassion
	Most civilized people, rarely apologize to, or pay allegiance to the flag of, a people that are openly killing their countrymen in the thousands, but Shilpa Shetty did it. She had to go that extra mile to prove her loyalty to the terrorist cause. In Lahore, she showed her allegiance to the Pakistani flag by kissing it and apologized profusely to the denizens of the terrorist state for "unintentionally hurting Pakistani sentiments". What would you do to get some attention in this love-fest for Pakistan? Hug and kiss some terrorists? No chance, Urmila's already done it. Maybe, praising or absolving all Pakistani terrorists would do? Wrong call again, Sharukh's already gone ahead in this game as in "they [the terrorists] must be having their reasons for doing it, not questioning who is right or wrong". Aahh! here's an approach at visibility that's probably not been tried? How about helping out Pakistani terrorists carry out operations in India? Been there, done that? At least, Sanjay Dutt has. Let me introduce you to Iqbal Durrani, a bollywood writer-director, who is helping Imran Khan, the ex-cricketer and a hardliner on Kashmir, raise money for a cancer hospital in Pakistan. "Who do we help raise money for today (a) Indian kids orphaned in the Gujarat earthquake and riots? Nope, Nope (b) Indians displaced due to terrorism in Kashmir and the North East? Nope, not worthy enough (c) Some alleged Pakistani hospital, that no one has seen, promised to you by a shady Pakistani playboy turned politician, who strongly supports killing Indian women and children in Kashmir? Eureka, (c) it is, (c) it is. What could be a better choice? Why did I not think of it earlier?" Nice thinking, Mr. Durrani, Keep it up!! It would seem that the Pakistani people agree with you whole-heartedly, too? "You know the same kind of reciprocal peace efforts, where we fix holes in the hearts of their babies, while they fix bombs in the school buses of our babies. You get my drift? Equal-equal, peace initiatives from people on both sides….. Beer Goggles in Bollywood http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13450047&page=1 By Arindam Banerji arindam_banerji@yahoo.com You probably did not know 5-year old Zahida of Doda; truth of the matter is, neither did I. Sadly, I've come to know something of the last moments of her life. So, let me relate to you what I now know. Late on the night of March 21, a small group of LeT terrorists forcibly entered the home of Zahida's father Fetah Mohammed in the mountainous hamlet of Tanka. Feta's reluctance to entertain the Pakistanis proved fatal. The terrorists simply grenaded little Zahida and her 4-year old brother to their deaths. Two more Indian children added to the weekly death score of the LeT. But, there is another story yet. A day or two or three later, while flipping through the news, I happened to hear about an Indian actress profusely apologizing to Pakistanis in Lahore, for "hurting their sentiments". The incongruity struck me as odd to say the least, if not a little nauseating. You see, both Indian and Pakistani newspapers have reported multiple times, that LeT (or Jamaat-ud-Dawaa as it now likes to be called) has been raising unheard of sums of money in donations from ordinary Pakistanis in the last few months. And its not as if the LeT, in its brochures, periodicals and posters, is shy about announcing its intentions or even depicting trophy pictures of dead Indians. ......... ............... ........................ ..............................