'SETTING DOUBLE-STANDARDS'...
It thinks it is a world police.Sets up laws.Wants every other nation to follow those laws.But America itself does not follow those laws.
In this blog,I want to talk about only one aspect of this behavior.
'AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE'...
America setups some junk panels to sit on judgment on so-called religious freedom throughout the world.
And that funny panel puts India in a list of countries in a 'watch-list' where India is in the same bracket as countries like Afghanistan..!!
India is a multi-cultured,multi-religious,multi-lingual pluralistic society.India is a big Country.Of-course it's true that there are some religious tensions in one or two parts of India created by some demagogues.But those are one off incidents.And India and Indian people knows how to handle such minor irritants.America and it's rulers and dump panels or the so-called 'independent bodies ' should mind its own business and not try to push in it's ugly head into unwanted areas and screw up things..!!
What is America's record on human rights and religious tolerance??
Pathetic,isn't it??
If things are analyzed and tracked back to proper historical facts,it's very obvious that almost all human sufferings,at least the present ones,be it in Afghanistan or Iraq or any other part of the world,are mainly due to faulty American policies.
America created monsters like Osama and pak terror groups.American people themselves suffered on 9/11,because of the foolish Afgan-pak policies of the nineties .
After 9/11 what ever America did,was anti-Muslim to say the least.Mere suspects were kept in cages in Guantanamo bay,as if those humans were some monkeys kept in zoos...!
Against most of them kept in those cages,America was not able to furnish even an iota of evidence..
Why is the American panel on religious panel mum on these facts??
America frisks any person bearing a semblance of being a Muslim,be it in name or appearance.What ever American officials say,it's absolutely clear that the treatment to former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam,Shah Rukh Khan and other ordinary people are not mere routine security frills.It was mere harassment in the name of religion..!!
What else explains a 2 hour long detainment at airports?
May be it is America's way of making America secure..!!
OK,fine.
If that is the case,America should not complaint,if the same sort of treatment is meted out to American citizens and VIPs through out the world.Yardsticks applied should be same.
I wind up with the following 2 block of statements and leave the readers to decide on the irony of what America preaches and what it practices..!!
The Obama Administration on Friday said freedom of expression and religion is important for the United States, but refrained from making any comment on the a US body putting India on "watch list" for religious intolerance.
"You know, freedom of expression and religious freedom we think are hallmarks of stable, progressive societies in the 21st century. It is obviously important to us," Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley said at the daily State Department press briefing.
When asked what impression Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had during her visit to India last month, Crowley said: "I can't say to what degree it came up during the Secretary's conversations last month, but clearly this is an area which we think it obviously is across the globe a source of potential stability."
The Obama Administration believes that those societies that practice significant tolerance will be those that advance most significantly in the coming years.
"I was really hassled at the American Airport because of my name being Khan...The couple of hours of interrogation wanting to know if I know anyone in America while all around people were vouching for me from India and Pakistan (sic)," the Bollywood superstar said in a statement.
"Only these guys just would not let me through. Finally they allowed me to make a call, which I did and the Indian Consulate helped me through.
Khan, who was on his way to Chicago to attend an Independence Day function was detained at the New York Airport and questioned for about two hours before the Indian mission intervened and secured his release.
"It was absolutely was uncalled for I think, me having just finished working there for more than a month...just a couple of weeks ago. They said I have a common name which is causing the delay...checked my bags...I felt angry and humiliated,"
"I appreciated my independence a million times more today, I wish I was in India on Independence Day," Khan told a news channel.
The Indian Consulate in New York is in touch with Khan, and the Indian government has taken up the issue with the United States administration.
I am not blaming the American people here,I am just talking about the sheer double standards practiced and perfected by each and every American governments from time immemorial.American people seems to be nice,after-all they elected a person bearing the name Barack Hussein Obama as their President.I have read/heard some people saying that it's the American people to be blamed for electing people like George Bush,who led the world into an unwanted invasion of Iraq.The answer to them is,American people does not seem to have a choice,who ever they elect,it seems there are some base 'double standard' policies every American president is supposed to follow..!!
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