Fwd: [bangla-vision] If Arundhati Roy Is Jailed Or Killed.....

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From: Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha <mohammad_b_haq@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Subject: [bangla-vision] If Arundhati Roy Is Jailed Or Killed.....
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If Roy Is Jailed Or Killed       India should let Arundhati Roy speak up her mind, not prosecute her.     BY BASHY QURAISHY | Tuesday, 2 November 2010. WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM     COPENHAGEN, Denmark— My advice to the Indian power elite is to let Arundhati Roy speak her mind for justice for all - Indians, Pakistanis and most of all for Kashmiris.   [There are early signs of a whisper campaign and prosecution against Ms. Roy inside India. A mob of extremist Hindu political group has attacked her house. Prominent Indian news outlets confirmed a sedition case was being prepared against her. Normally the accused in Indian sedition cases receive harsh treatment. Other reports suggest she might be dragged to court in other cases as a means to get to her in an indirect way. Roy has angered the Indian government and other hardliners by saying Kashmir 'is not an integral part of India'.]   Prosecuting Roy has two distinct disadvantages for India. It will shame India forever because the whole world is watching and it would also show the ugly face of a sham democracy where 600 million people live on $1 dollar a day.   Indian leaders and religious forces do not get tired of reminding the world how democratic India is, while simultaneously denying the Kashmiris and other minorities their right of self-determination.   It would do India a great deal of good if it lets Kashmiris decide their own fate through a referendum [India is obliged to that anyway because it has signed a UN resolution concerning this issue]. Kashmiris can join India or Pakistan. A free Kashmir will help India create a better relationship with Pakistan and help to eradicate extremism and terrorism and minimize horribly huge military expenditures in both countries.  ===========   Bashy Quraishy is a PakNationalists.com columnist and an author of seven books on minorities in Europe. He is Danish of Pakistani descent. See his biography. He can be reached at bashy@mail.dk

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