 Yasin Malik, chief of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) said on Saturday that Muslims were equally responsible for cruelty meted out against them because a majority of them do not believe in democracy.
| Be careful starting your car for the next few years, Yasin. And watch for bearded men riding motorcycles... |
“When democracy heralds upon a Muslim country, the opposition tends to launch a movement to dislodge it,” Malik said while speaking at a gathering during the World Social Forum proceedings on Saturday.
| Democracies bring the promise — though not always the realization — of freedom. Freedom includes freedom of thought, which encompasses freedom of religion. Islam is doctrinally against freedom of religion; you can be killed for leaving its bloodstained embrace. Without freedom of thought there is no other freedom. |
He pointed out that talks were going on between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir dispute and they also believed in the process. He said that if the talks failed, it wouldn’t affect the ongoing struggle for the freedom of Kashmir. He declared that the people of India and Pakistan would force the governments of both countries to resolve the conflict through negotiations. “Better relations between the two countries are possible only through the resolution of the Kashmir dispute,” he said.
| It's been 60 years, and the people of India and Pakland haven't gotten around to forcing the governments of both countries to resolve the problem. In Pakistan it's an end all and be all, the first difficult step in a grandiose plan that's supposed to result in the dismemberment of India and Pakistan's aggrandizement. |
Malik claimed that ‘Kashmiriat’ was purely a spiritual thing. He said 15,000 pundits were living in Indian-held Kashmir and he urged them to return to the valley.
| They don't want to. They're not happy with the idea of gunfire. |
Malik claimed that as many as 85 percent of Kashmiris wanted freedom while only 15 percent wanted to live with Pakistan. “Our history is full of struggle and it will continue till we achieve full freedom,” he said.
| Yeah, yeah. Whoopdy doo. Without Armed Struggle™ you got nuttin'. There's no purpose to your life. You'll dry up and blow away, and it'll be like you've never been. You and your like are such tiresome little men. |
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