Afir, what do you mean by "genetically Hindu"? Religion is not genetic. Your understanding of Islam is just a caricature - I am not muslim, but I have known many in my life, and very few of them showed any sympathy for the acts of Wahabis, let alone the Taliban.

You have done an admirable job at picking out some extremists who claim to have the one true Islam, but those are not the only extremists in the world - there are many groups that make no claims to Islam that do things of those sort - the LTTE in Tamil Nadu is an excellent example. The problem of violence is inherent in human nature, no matter what flag it waves. Your comments can do little but fan the flames of hatred and violence, even as you would point the blame elsewhere. The blame is not, of course, even mostly yours, but you're not helping.

Did Pakis not rejoice when infidels were massacred in Muslim terror attacks?

I do not recall any Pakis holding anti-terror rallies after Mumbai massacre by Muslim terrorists.

Have not Pakis created Taliban and sheltered al qaeda? Did they shed tears or rejoice when Hindus were massacred in Kashmir?

Correct the flaws and errors of Islam and Hinduism and you solve the conflict between Pakistan and India.

To with (for those eyes that have not seen):

Mohammed was an illiterate, womanizing, lust and greed-driven, warmongering, hallucinating Arab, who also had embellishing/hallucinating/plagiarizing scribal biographers who not only added "angels" and flying chariots to the koran but also a militaristic agenda to support the plundering and looting of the lands of non-believers.

This agenda continues as shown by the massacre in Mumbai, the assassinations of Bhutto and Theo Van Gogh, the conduct of the seven Muslim doctors in the UK, the 9/11 terrorists, the 24/7 Sunni suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers, the 24/7 Shiite suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers, the Islamic bombers of the trains in the UK and Spain, the Bali crazies, the Kenya crazies, the Pakistani “koranics”, the Palestine suicide bombers/rocketeers, the Lebanese nutcases, the Taliban nut jobs, and the Filipino “koranics”.

And who funds this muck and stench of terror? The warmongering, Islamic, Shiite terror and torture theocracy of Iran aka the Third Axis of Evil and also the Sunni "Wannabees" of Saudi Arabia.

Current crises:

The Sunni-Shiite blood feud and the warmongering, womanizing (11 wives), hallucinating founder.

Hinduism (from an online Hindu site) - "Hinduism cannot be described as an organized religion. It is not founded by any individual. Hinduism is God centered and therefore one can call Hinduism as founded by God, because the answer to the question ‘Who is behind the eternal principles and who makes them work?’ will have to be ‘Cosmic power, Divine power, God’."

Reincarnation, the caste/laborer system and cow worship/reverence are problems when saying a fair and rational God founded Hinduism."

Current crises:

Reincarnation, the caste system and cow worship/reverence.

No Indian is raised hating Pakistan. Otherwise it would be Hindu terrorists who would have gone to Karachi to massacre 200 civilians. Indians have better things to do than raise their kids on a hate campaign against any one. This is what Muslims do; and the result shows.

Since Pakistan has embraced radical Islam, its enemy is the West, specifically the US.

Why aren't people calling for the deportation of Pakistani's and blocking any more of them from entering the US. Americans are very selective of who they wish to call their enemies and demonize while Pakistan's radical Islamic agenda is right before our eyes. We do nothing because George Bush said they are our allies.

Pakistan aside, ideologically India's constitution is commendable.

The supreme court of India just recently established a sort of commission (?) to investigate the role of Chief Minister, Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The problem in India is that there are a sizable number of fanatics among Hindus who want to take India back to the Dark Ages. These fanatics belong to BJP, Bajrang Dal (the monkey brigade), RSS, Shiva Sena and VHP (Vishvaw Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council).

I hasten to add that there are also a sizable number of Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Dalits (the untouchables) who want to see that India's democracy and secularism flourishes.

I think a majority of Pakistanis would like to keep good relations with India. After all they were part of the same territory before 1947.

Pakistan can learn a few things from India's economic progress.

Eboo

You are toeing US admin line. The US generals are telling Pakistan to forget their eastern border and serve the US interests.
India is a true enemy of Pakistan. Looking at their lobbies and bloggers and comment posters, the are hostile and do not want any peace with Pakistan.
The agressive analyisis about the internal situation in pakistan by the indian columinists server no good purpose.

Eboo Patel,

You write of "the criminal exploitation of Islam by the Taliban."

The truth is that the people of Pakistan (and Saudi Arabia, UAE) have been well aware of the use of terrorism as Pakistan state policy for decades (including supporting Sikh terrorists). It is disingenuous now to claim that the Taliban are exploiting Islam. Almost all Muslims have been comfortable with violence including Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, etc... to advance their agenda of the expansion of Islam.

Now you hear some hollow complaints about the Taliban from "moderate" Muslims. Notice how the complaints are not on principle - that terrorism and violence against Indians and Afghanis was always morally wrong and against the Koran. One only hears about the threat to Pakistan as a reason to oppose the same terrorists that have been committing acts of violence with "moral and diplomatic" support from "moderates" for a long time.

If terrorists had succeeded in causing more chaos in Kashmir, Punjab, or Afghanistan instead of Pakistan, "moderates" would not be complaining today, just like their silence for the last few decades. A fundamental change is needed in the Islamic culture and identity of Pakistan - a nation created only because of Islam. Less hatred, less violence and less supremacism; more tolerance and more plurality.

It's really hard being a Muslim these days, if you're a moderate you need a scapegoat, our goat here is the Taliban.

Pakistan's real enemy is Islam and not the Taliban. Pakistan has always had a serious identity problem; inhabitants of this country have a hard time identifying themselves. They are 99% genetically Hindu but 99% of them will say they are Arab or Persian decedents. One fool I know insists that he is of Russian decent!

Islam brings with it a baggage of its own, a cast baggage. You'll see that in a western fresh convert; Male will wear Mohammed clothes, eat mohammed food, wear a mohamed face. The female will wear the Aiesha tent/cover whatever. The Aiesha walk; looking at the ground when in public or gazing into space not particularly looking at any man/preson. Both the male/female very angry with the society they grow up in. The society is never Islamic enough for them, if it is Islamic then its the wrong kind; not implemented properly.

Faced with of all that Muslims are constantly looking for a change in their behavior, always believing that Sharia will magically solve their problems. They live in the past believing in a glory that factually never existed.

Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, suicide bombers, Chechnya terrorists, the Kashmir terrorists, 9/11 bombers, London bombers, Spanish bombers, the Mumbai bombers etc. they all have one thing in common; they are/were ALL Muslims. They all read that same un-adulterated koran.

The world cannot fix Muslim problems, American cannot and neither can the dwindling western populations keep "Peace keeping forces" in failed Muslim states. What are we looking at here? A peace keeping force in Pakistan too?