Misogyny is ingrained in the sharia and ought not to be entertained in our democracy for it violates the basic spirit of individual freedom and equality of the sexes.
The West should give up its greed for gold and eschew connections with terrorist States like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. International relations of Western nations ought not to supersede basic Western principles of liberalism and democracy which these Islamic States openly flout.
China must be checked now by America in its unbridled supremacist tendencies in South Asia, else, the free world will pay a heavy price for such latitude in the not-so-distant future.
Too much is made of Islamophobia. It is time to reverse the narrative and take radical Islam to account for its perpetration of terror across the world.
The demon of the human heart cannot be obliterated for it is a biological impossibility. What remains though within the realm of sociological possibility is the suppression of circumstances that call forth the demon to express itself in violent terms. The unlikely victory of liberalism over dogmatism may bring about the requisite change but evolution through education and experience works its way out in its own sweet time. So, perilous though the journey be through the present, a vigilant patience is the only way out.
Of what avail is piety if not directed to the service of one's fellow being? Here we talk of a life after death --- heaven, hell, nirvana, et al --- and here we allow our brethren to suffer the miseries of want and privation that make life on earth hell itself when we fully possess the power to ameliorate their condition. Let our deeds make us spiritual, not our vocations, and certainly not our pretensions to piety.
The man of truth is the man of power but how hard it is to find truthfulness in word, intent, motivation, aspiration and discernment. Rare indeed is the man of truth; verily is he centred in his Self that strays not into the falsity of appearance.
India must gather power through mass education of her population and the entitlement of her children to proper nourishment of the body and the mind. The common culture of the land is that of the Vedas and that will hold the nation through if its humanistic principles are well applied by the government. The rest will be achieved by the inventive genius of the children, for in ability or in intelligence they are second to none in the world.
A national narrative ought to be there in India that will make all Indians consciously proud of their heritage, confident about their future possibilities and secure in their affiliation to the nation as an enlightened citizenry.
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