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...little publicized fact that when Pakistan was carved out from India, its creation was opposed not just by Nehru and Gandhi, but also by the Islamic leaders of the time. Jinnah—Pakistan’s founder—envisioned the new country as a progressive Muslim, not Islamic, state. Indeed, his independence address declared to his people, “You are free to go to your temples, [to your] places of worship...that has nothing to do with the business of the State...You will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus...
When I think of civil disobedience, a few names spring to mind. Mohandas Gandhi. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nelson Mandela. These are the names of great heroes who will be remembered for a long time, heroes who fought for their peoples freedom against oppression and tyranny through non-violent protest and civil disobedience...
What these janitors and students are doing is not civil disobedience. When Gandhi went to jail for protesting British imperialism and refused to eat for such a long time that he nearly died, that was civil disobedience. When Dr. King went to prison for fighting for civil rights and was regularly beaten by racist sheriffs, that was civil disobedience. When Nelson Mandela languished in his jail cell, that was civil disobedience. So when Harvard janitors march to protest that they are not getting a big enough pay raise, forgive me for not hailing them as martyrs...
...peaceniks may be something of a fringe group right now - although their perspective probably has a lot more support among the leadership on their side of the divide than that of their Israeli counterparts. And even if the PA was tempted to resort now to the tactics of Mahatma Gandhi, the men in charge of the militias and terrorist cells on the ground who actually carry out the suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks have a way of imposing their own ideas...
...received its final O.K., Enron gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee.) And when Enron was trying to sell its interest in the Indian project, the New York Daily News reported, Vice President Dick Cheney raised the issue in a meeting last June with Indian opposition leader Sonia Gandhi. The White House says he was acting not at Enron's behest but on the need to protect $640 million in federal money...