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As per some scholars, the date September 11, 2001, was chosen by Islamic terrorists because of the european victory over the Turks on September 11,1683 in the battle of Vienna, which broke Turkish power permanently. After this battle, the Turks would gain no further ground in Europe and would never again challenge Vienna though they engaged in the Greek, Assyrian and Armenian genocides later on. The grooming gang scandal in the UK is an another recent manifestation of religious prejudice and hatred of some demented Islamists. A core belief in traditional and political Islam is that God's law (Sharia) is best for global society, and most Islamists want governments to use Sharia instead of Western legal systems. Taliban and the later ISIS were considered to be the epitome of an ideal society, and the Islamists felt that it was their holy mission and act of compassion to deliver Sharia governance to other countries as well even if it includes extreme violence. Public opinion polls however show that most everyday Muslims want democracy and fair legal systems, viewing their faith as a personal and moral guide rather than a tool for global conquest. They are fed up of fatwas, beheadings and amputations , lack of music and entertainment considered as Haram by the authorities. The women detest polygamy and talaq (instant divorce), burqas and other sharia rules but have to comply submissively fearing brutal punishment, and even endorse the same due to stockholm syndrome. Even liberal Islamic sects like sufism and Ahmediyas emphasizing music and scholarship respectively have been subject to persecution by the Islamists for having differences with mainstream Islamic doctrine. Some Islamic leaders have also endorsed use of wmd against western targets . Vigilance and pragmatism is key to preventing such weaponry ending up in the hands of terrorists.

Mastery of mass media. If you have control over mass media, you can manipulate and shape narratives that define yourself or your clients as world-class or the best of the best or having both substance and style, even if the contrary is true. You can even commit a crime and look innocent and righteous through skillful narratives.

The Macdonald Triad is used in crime-fighting to predict violent behavior in adults, and is a psychological toolkit used by the FBI. The triad links cruelty to animals, obsession with fire-setting, and persistent bedwetting past the age of five, to violent behaviors and especially criminal behavior later on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad Studies also show that communities with slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants experience higher rates of total arrests and violent or sexual crimes compared to areas with other industries.The findings revealed that an increase in slaughterhouse employment significantly predicted higher rates of total arrests, violent crimes, rape, and other sex offenses, distinct from the effects seen in other manufacturing sectors. https://www.newrootsinstitute.org/articles/violence-translating-outside-the-slaughterhouse So veganism/vegetarianism is also bound to get sociological results for the better and provide a shot in the arm for the war against crime as well.

The Self, our Being, is awareness. Thoughts and feelings comes and goes, but awareness remains constant always. The attributes of Self or Awareness is peace, bliss and contentment. Greatest mystery is that we get entangled in our thoughts and emotions in the pursuit of pleasure forgetting the Self, and inadvertently create a nightmarish cocoon of psychological suffering for ourselves. It is like begging for scraps and pennies while sitting on a treasure chest and ignorant of the same due to amnesia. Some people arrive at the knowledge of the Self intuitively, while others come to the same through spiritual philosophies and authentic religious methodologies. Some unfortunates however never learn of their own Self during their lifetimes though it is the closest to them.

A favourite leader of mine is Lazaro Cardenas, who is considered the greatest president Mexico had in the twentieth century. Both honest and competent, he brought about revolutionary all-round reforms that empowered the poor and underprivileged of Mexico, strengthened and brought about Mexican economic independence ending foreign dependencies, ended military interference in Mexican politics and strengthened democratic rule. He developed Mexican culture by welcoming thousands of exiled Spanish refugees which included prominent Spanish writers, artists, scientists, and professors who fled the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. This significantly enriched Mexican culture, education, and intellectual life. Post-presidency as well, he lived a simple life and continued to work and promote reforms in rural Mexico building free medical clinics, local schools, and supervising irrigation projects for poor rural communities. Even now it is hard for me to believe that such a man and world-class leader came up in Mexico, and if at all Mexico had a Zorro like figure,it would be Cardenas, imho.

Veganism can be an effective weapon in the war against global warming. The global meat and livestock industry is responsible for about 14% to 18% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. A study has found that meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study So being a vegan or vegetarian is a necessary austerity to be taken for the health of the world, for a temporary period at least till an another effective alternative can be found. I am a vegetarian and use electric vehicles mostly without any expensive petrol or diesel.

Whether Ukraine was independent or part of USSR, it was still targetted by the European Nazis for total annihilation and who considered the Slavs as racially inferior. Many millions of Ukrainian Slavs and Jews were methodically eliminated by the Nazis in Ukraine as well in tune with its policy of creating Lebensraum or living space for future occupation by europeans considered racially superior . If it weren't for the stunning Russian counter-attack starting from Stalingrad that ended the Nazi war machine permanently, the Jews and Ukrainian Slavs would have ended as extinct as the dodos.

Both the Palestinian and Ukrainian conflicts have their origin in the legacy of the second world war, imho. The religious and racial persecution of the Jews in europe for many centuries eventually led to the genocide in the second world war which killed over 6 million jews, and thus leading to the events creating a separate state for the remaining Jews in the Middle east surrounded by hostile arab states. Similarly heavy destruction of life was caused by the Axis military alliance of European Nazis in the second world war in the USSR, leading to the deaths of over 25 million Slavs as part of racial genocide. This is one of the reasons, along with Napoleon's earlier invasion of Russia, that the russians are heavy paranoid of hostile military alliances on their borders, leading to both diplomatic moves in the begining to prevent such a scenario and now followed by conflict. The two world wars which originated in europe killing over a hundred million people came about on the basis of military alliances. Hence disbanding of military alliances is key to prevent more such disastrous world wars from coming up in europe again .

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39640 It appears that the US interceptor inventory has drained itself in the war on iran taking down cheap Iranian drones with multi-million dollar interceptors. However this can be an another opportunity and bonanza for the western military industrial complex to cite reasons for low national security and rip off more taxpayer money to get more contracts for multi-billion dollar interceptors, and keep on ignoring more important sectors like subsidised education, healthcare and housing in the US. , even though there are around a million homeless people in the US with around a thousand dying of hypothermia each year. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-12-13/more-people-are-homeless-and-more-people-are-freezing-to-death

A Belgian car salesman was acknowledged as a prince after a paternity test confirmed his biological father to be Prince Laurent , brother to the King of Belgium. Delphine Boel was an another illegitimate daughter of Prince Laurent, who fought a court battle for many years till she too was acknowledged as his daughter and claimed the title of princess in 2020. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/22/europe/prince-belgium-secret-son-scli-intl

Gandhi used teachings of nonviolent agitation and universal brotherhood as a social tool to unify Indian society which was highly fragmented along diverse casteist, religious, regional, racial and linguistic lines , and to channel their energies to fighting exploitative british colonialism back then . Through his personal example, speeches and writings ,discussions, rallies and social movements and so on, he created a unified , cohesive society and political movement against british colonialism. Many of his muslim friends and comrades also joined him in this venture . Khudai Khidmatgar was a non-violent, Pashtun muslim freedom movement against British rule in colonial India inspired by Gandhi. Founded in 1929 by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (also called Bacha Khan or the Frontier Gandhi), its members wore red shirts and worked nonviolently and progressively for social reform, education, and national unity. That Gandhi was able to unify such highly fragmented sections into a cohesive whole was a great success in itself and showcased his leadership skills. I don't think there is any other leader in the world that have achieved such a feat. This should be seen in the background and context of the regressive Hindu and Muslim societies back then in India stuck in primitive conditioning and consequent inter-religious disharmony, which was further inflamed by the British with their divide and rule policies which they had heavily invested in. While Gandhi's efforts were instrumental in unifying Indian society to a large extent, he was not able to overcome the partitioning of India on religious lines. However, India had survived intact for the last 80 years and is also on the road to great prosperity as the fastest growing major economy in the world for many years now. It is the fourth largest economy in the world and is forecast to displace the US as the largest economy in the world after a few decades. The stability which India enjoyed for many decades inspite of large-scale diversity, is mainly due to Gandhi's legacy of nonviolence which prevented the balkanisation of India sequencing to various small regional conflicts and wars , as has happened in Europe prior and during the two world wars and aftermath as well, and which had killed many millions of europeans then and now. You don't need to kill or maim anyone or destroy public property created by tax money, to make a religious or political statement. Just carrying a banner and uttering slogans or going on a fast will do. In Pakistan, inter-sectarian conflicts resulting in Sunni-Shia-Sufi-Ahmediya riots are commonplace resulting in deaths of thousands of muslims due to suicide bombings and riots, while the same do not take place in India. The only muslim scientist to get a Nobel prize in physics was Abdus Salam from Pakistan. However he was subjected to severe state and societal discrimination and prejudice in Pakistan due to his Ahmediya sectarian background. On the other hand he was treated respectfully and well in India when he came there, and received awards for excellence in science , and later stated that he was prouder to be called an Indian than a Pakistani. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was a former Indian president of muslim identity and rocket scientist who played a major role in the Indian space programme. Kalam considered the message of non-violence India's greatest contribution to global civilization and believed humanity has yet to find a better tool than Gandhian thought to unite people and reach a common objective He frequently highlighted Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence and the convergence of minds as an unmatched model for resolving conflict and achieving national and international goals.

It is just artificially fabricated hatred due to political reasons. Imo, UK leaving EU to have its own identity, perhaps compelled it to support Nato against Russia more vocally to convince other europeans of their loyalty to the political idea of Europe. I say political, because geographically, racially and culturally, russia is part of europe. During the war against the french empire, the british considered the russians as their political ally, and the Duke of Wellington used to correspond with the ageing Russian general Suvurov and had a good relationship with him. The russian role in ending the napoleonic and nazi regimes, also created a lot of goodwill for them in the UK. The UAE, Saudi , Israel are powerful nations, and the UK do not want to unnecessarily create hostility with them. Russia however is perceived as a weak nation, both militarily and economically, and there is an abundance of western narratives painting Russia as an evil nation ever since the cold war due to heavy funding by capitalists worried about losing their wealth and pleasant lifestyle. So it is easier for them to foster perceived hostility against Russia, hoping to look like the good guys in the process and gain potential adulations.

There is a village in southern India where this festival takes place once a year among the farming community. The idea behind is to get rid of revulsion towards cow dung as it is a natural fertilizer of the farmer and part of organic farming. Most of the farming community is affluent, and usually arrogance and false pride comes with affluence . So this ritual is a way of grounding the youth in the traditional ways of the farmer. As a ten year old, I remember my own revulsion to taking cow dung with my hands while trying to help my grandmother who was tending her garden. Eventually after some time, I willed myself to overcome my aversion and take up the cow dung and transplant it to the plants in the garden. Cow dung is an important element of organic farming and is harmless and natural. Chemical fertilizers have been linked to higher rates of cancer and carcinogenic particles, neurotoxicity and so on. It is also a major pollutant of groundwater. https://www.kiripost.com/stories/overuse-of-chemical-fertilisers-linked-to-dangerous-nitrate-levels-in-food https://www.thenewlede.org/2023/09/nitrate-contaminated-water-may-drive-corn-belt-cancers/ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/10/22/organic-food-better-environment/ Use of chemical pesticides have also been linked to tangible higher rates of cancer and dementia in many developed nations. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/another-3-common-pesticides-are-now-linked-to-parkinsons-disease-risk https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178124002178 https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/pesticides-raise-dementia-risk-32988 Natural bio-pesticides, crop rotation and beneficial insect habitats are used in organic farming instead to combat pests.

Right now one-tenth of the mind is conscious, and nine-tenths is unconscious; naturally it is nine times more powerful. The unconscious mind behaves in wrong ways; the conscious mind behaves in right ways. And the only religion there is, is the art of changing the unconscious mind into consciousness, so that you don't have the duality of unconscious and conscious but you have only one…a pure light, a pure consciousness. And out of that consciousness, everything is divine. ~ Osho Before you start making your songs and singing and dancing, create the right consciousness, the right awareness, so whatever comes out of you is a blessing for humanity, not a curse. ~ Osho Mind is a blessing with meditation, otherwise it is a curse. ~ Osho Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven. ~ Osho

Eloquently and coherently articulated. Thank you for this.